Project Name: Lollipops Pillow
Pattern: Book – Quilts from the House of Tula Pink
Finished Size: 18″ x 18″
Sewist: Carrie
Tula Pink’s fun new book, Quilts from the House of Tula Pink, tapped into my passion for covered buttons and love of bright happy colors. The Lollipop Pillow was a perfect project for using my Pink Chalk Fabrics covered button kit.
Immediately after seeing the pattern, I pulled out my ‘inspiration’ basket and began digging for a fun combination of colors. This basket often serves as my jump off point for projects. Sometimes the scraps inside are large enough to be part of the project – sometimes the scraps just get the creative thoughts running around in my head. Hours are spent moving the bits and pieces from pile to pile.
The wonderful arrangement of buttons is set on a foundation of stitched lines. The lines are drawn on with a disappearing ink pen. I used a double stitch on my machine to make the star pattern. Stitching continuously, each line crosses back through the center point.
After arranging the buttons on the fabric, I taped them on with blue masking tape. The buttons are hand stitched with a curved needle and heavy thread in groups. It is easier not to tie off between each button. (The draw back of linking buttons together is that they are not moveable in the end. I had a couple I would have placed differently!)
To finish the pillow the envelope style back is attached. Once the pillow is turned a simple top stitch gives it a beautiful look. Insert an 18″ x 18″ pillow form and – Voila!!
The pillow now has a cozy spot on my bed.
Happy Sewing! – Carrie
Kathy Mack
Carrie + Diana
Love this pillow, it’s perfect for your bed!
That pillow is amazing!
This would be so cute if you incorporated a few hand embroidered buttons.
I love the idea of embroidered buttons!
I want to give that a try! I looks awesome, great job!
IT looks awesome, not me lol.
I Like it.
I do think I would use “yo-yos” instead of buttons simply because there are small children in and out of my house and I’d hate for one of them to choke on a button if they managed to pull one off.
Yo-yos are a great idea
Thank you! ~ Carrie
LOVE this pillow!
I really like the lollipop pillow, and it has given me an idea to augment a project I am working on… Thanks!
So cute! Immediately drawn to this little pillow, I sat and stared at it for a little while. Finally it came to me why I felt so good looking at it. Do you remember the advent calendars so many of us had when we were children? I had to have one every year. And spoiled only daughter that I was I got one, swearing my Christmas season would not be complete without one. The little ‘vignettes’ featured on these buttons remind me of those advent calendars. Love it!
Love this pillow! It’s so graphic and simple!!
I love it when whimsy meets stylish, and I think that is happening in this pillow. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, that is SO cute! I love your fabric choices for the buttons.
That’s completely lovely! I’m not even particularly interested in pinks or oranges, usually, but the prints you use are so interesting and fun, and so well-set-off by the grey pillow fabric and the dark brown accents/black stitching. Really lovely. I’m afraid my cats (or my toddler) would be a little too interested in something like this, but I still LOVE the idea.
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