It’s time for another fun blog hop, this time hosted by
Carla of Creatin' in the Sticks. Here’s the list of the final day's participants:
Thursday, November 17th
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The theme for this hop is obviously music. Rather than depicting music
itself via notes, etc. I decided to represent a specific piece of music. I
quickly settled on the classical piece by Vivaldi titled “The Four Seasons.”
It’s a beautiful group of four violin concertos that were composed around
1718−1720 by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. There are many renditions of
it on You Tube for you to listen to at your leisure. A selection from the
“Spring” concerto was played as part of my wedding ceremony, so it holds a
special meaning for me.
Once I had decided on the musical piece, I had to figure out
how to represent the four seasons in fabric. I recently bought a bench for the
front foyer of my house and thought it needed a pillow to dress it up.
So then I thought I’d be a good idea to make one pillow and then make four interchangeable sleeves/wraps to go around it, one for each of the four seasons of the year.
Rather than finding a fabric for the pillow itself that would work for all the
seasons, (which might have been tricky,) I decided to make a two-sided pillow
with fabrics that would complement two seasons each. Here’s the 14” x 25” pillow,
made from orange and blue ginghams:
The pillow wraps are fastened around the pillow with sew-in
Velcro.
I had a lot of fun creating the pillow wraps, and if you’d
like to do the same, the FREE pattern can be found here.
I love to read your comments and will reply to each one via
email unless you are a “No Reply Blogger.”
Finally, be sure to visit everyone participating in this
hop!
Monday, November 14th
Tuesday, November 15th
Wednesday, November 16th
Thursday, November 17th
