Ruffle a few feathers

The end of the school year is approaching. My full time teaching contract has ended and I am back on call, thus I have some time on my hands. Here I am bored looking for inspiration when I stumble across Jennifer's blog Tattertots and Jello. I loved her burlap ruffle table runner. But not having any burlap at home I decided to take her idea, tweak it and turn it into a pillowcase. Luckily I just happened to have a feather pillow laying around just begging for a pillowcase.

I had a whole bunch of Amy Butler fabric in blue/green tones so I grabbed a few, cut them into 3.5" x 40" strips and created 7 long ruffles. I used 2 fat quarters for the front and back of the pillowcase, attached a zipper and created a pretty funky pillowcase.

The front:

The back:

Did you notice my last 3 posts are all colour coordinated? Ha!

Sweet Dreams

Here is Ethan's finished pillowcase. The pillowcase is super basic so it took me about 30 mins to sew...not too shabby!

While we are talking about pillows...here is a pillowcase I made Ethan last summer when he took his first trip without Mommy. Ethan was taking a 11 day vacation with his father to NFLD. So here I am: recently separated, never been away from my son for more than 2 nights, and ridiculously stressed out the whole idea! I decided to make Ethan a little travel pillow that he could take on the flight. On the back of the pillow I made a secret flap that hid a picture of Ethan and I. This way if he missed me he could look at the picture and know that I was thinking about him. He also kissed the picture good-night every evening!

Here he is all snuggled up with his 'big boy' quilt and pillow.