Dear Chicago House,
Remember that stencil I won and used to create a piece of art work for my office,
well I have been itching to have a go at stenciling some fabric ever since.
When I tore the disgusting drapes down from your windows when we first moved in, I had plans for selling them. But there were no takers ( surprise surprise!) so I salvaged all the lining and tossed the 1980’s curtains.
Now this stash of white fabric has been quite useful. I have already used it to make some Word Art pillows and it was the perfect fabric to have a play around with my stencil.
I gave the fabric a good iron and taped in onto a large wooden board ( a piece of crappy old basement paneling) Stenciling onto fabric was a lot easier that working on paper as I suffered no edge bleed.
I worked with just a single color – just a regular acrylic craft paint. Once the paint was dry I gave the fabric another good iron to fix the paint. To be honest I don’t know for certain how well this will stand the test of time but what I do know is if I ever get any acrylic art paint on my clothes it NEVER washes out.
I cut out two 19″ squares and quickly ran up a pillow cover on my sewing machine.
Pillow magic and as Mr Chicago House said, diamonds are forever, I think he liked it!
Love from
Creative in Chicago
XX
Love that idea & the pillow (cushion!) looks great! I have a stencil that's been sitting in the closet for months but perhaps I will bust it out and get ma pillow on. Or something.
What a great idea! I just bought a canvas to stencil on…hoping my "art" looks as good as yours!
Thank you for popping by HouseTalkN!
Kerry
oooh I'd love to see the finished creation!
Pillow , cushion…Lizzy I have been in the States so long now I don't know which is the British version anymore. My trash is still rubbish and my trash can is still a bin though!
So totally cute! Love that the stencil is a small graphic pattern, simple & modern with a touch of retro feel … think that style of stencil works really well to create a fabric pattern. You did a great job creating art with the stencil as well. Hard to believe from the photo that your house was dark, brown and boring when you bought it … so airy and fresh in the photo today 🙂
Robin
happilyhomeafter.blogspot.com
I LOVE it! I feel like I commented last night … but woke up and it's not here. Maybe it was a dream. lol I said that I'm getting ready to try to paint some fabric. Yours came out awesome!!! Thank you for linking up!!
Zoe,
I really love this pillow! Such a fabulous idea. I've been thinking of doing some stenciling on fabric too …
And thanks for linking up to our color party! And see how quickly I'm making it through the links …
🙂
Linda
I want to paint some fabric now – this is gorgeous!
So glad you showed off your skills at our Color party.
Kelly