Vintage Pillows

These are some vintage pillows I made this week to go on the Padre Hotel chairs that Brian recently refinished. The fabric was a curtain at our family camp in New Hampshire. The curtain had been hanging on one of the windows for 30-40 years. When things were updated, I was the lucky recipient of the curtain. It was faded at the top and had holes in it, but I loved the fabric. It reminds me of Camp, one of my favorite places in the whole world. My mom said before the curtain was used at Camp, it was in our house. {I don’t remember it being in our house.} Anyway, I brought this curtain home with me this past summer. Here it is.

First I found some pillow forms in the shape I wanted. Then I played around with different ways to get the best part of the curtain onto the front pieces of the pillows. I cut out two rectangles for each pillow. The back sides of the pillows have the very faded pieces, and only one hole, which I patched by sewing another piece of fabric over the hole. It’s imperfect, but that just shows how much I wanted to use this fabric.

I just sewed the right sides of the rectangles together, leaving openings to insert the pillows, flipped them right side out, inserted the pillows, then sewed up the opening by hand. Here they are on our new {old} chairs. The colors are just what I wanted and the fabric is perfectly sentimental. What lengths do you go to in order to preserve the past? My husband jokingly uses the term sentimental hogwash with me from time to time. I think that’s from It’s a Wonderful Life, which reminds me I need to watch that soon. I always love saving something from the past if I can make it useful for the present. Otherwise, I’m trying to get better about getting rid of things we don’t use or love. I’m thrilled that I figured out a way to save this fabric for a few more years.

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