8 April 2008
Tuesdays are better than Mondays! I got lots of stuff done, although not the cutting and sewing I still need to do. I excavated much of the guest room for our out of town loved ones who will be arriving tomorrow. I did some pretty extreme organizing of stuff . . . we have so much stuff . . . <sigh>
Middle of the day, I decided I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything interesting enough to photograph, and I snapped this shot of the trim on the giant bolster pillow I made a few years back. I’d been furniture shopping with somebody . . . Ginger and her mom, I think. And, I’d seen (what I then thought were) the exhorbitant prices of custom-made pillows. I love making pillows, and I couldn’t even imagine charging the ninety and a hundred dollars I was seeing on little throw pillows! Then, I saw the bolsters and the prices of $250 and up! And that was at least six or seven years ago! So, I promptly went home and made myself one out of scrap fabric! Anyway, this is the end of my bolster pillow—pretty trims and pretty fabrics, up close. There’s a lot of that in my world.
And by the way . . . if I include the “price” of my labour . . . $200-300 is a reasonable price for the darn thing!
~MB
