New Skill: Matching Pillow Shams
One of my mom’s guest rooms is Panama themed and she wanted a quilt that was going to match all of the Panamanian/tropical items she already had in the room. When she came to visit, we went to pick out fabric and she chose a wonderful set of batiks that were a beautiful greens, browns, and tans.
I was worried to set the batiks next to so much white fabric, but with a little hand-pre-washing and some washing machine experimenting, I think we’ve came to a place where there shouldn’t be any color running.
The pattern we decided on was a pattern I had done before a few times, but laid out in a different way to give the appearance of X’s instead of squares. Super easy to work with, especially since I bought the white fabric in pre-cut jellyrolls.
The pillow shams gave me a bit of a hard time, but thanks to one of my sisters, it was decided that they looked weird because the green was too intense next to the quilt now that the quilt had been quilted with white thread.
Took a risk by taking the pillow shams to the quilters to get the same design put on, and I am pleased with the results. They match the quilt better than I expected, and they feel more high quality (and less, “I made this on my baby machine on my dining room floor) because of the added structure.
10/10 would have pillow shams quilted every time in the future.
I’m pleased with the way it turned out and even more pleased that mom likes it so much.
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