Pillow Talk

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I have been searching my brain for creative ways to display my photos.  A photograph has to be truly special for me to hang it on a wall in my house and I never want my walls covered with my own photos.  Then one day at a craft store I discovered Photo Fabric, a paper-backed fabric for use in ink jet printers.  Immediately, I knew I would make pillows.

 

Most photographs in gallery shows have white mats and black frames, so I made the pillows to look like a gallery show on my sofa.
1.  After printing a photo, I cut off the excess fabric and added two-sided iron-on fusing to the back.
2.  With a hot iron I fused the photo to a 12x12 inch piece of white cotton (the mat) and sewed (zigzag stitch) around the edges to prevent fraying.
3. I cut 4 strips of black corduroy and sewed each one to a side of the white, and then joined them with mitered corners.
4.  I sewed the picture side to an 19x19 square of corduroy, leaving one side open to insert the pillow form and then hand stitched it closed.
5.  VOILA! An 18x18 inch gallery pillow.

If you want one with your photograph, I'll make it for $1,000.