While I’ve mostly been staying busy sewing various clothing projects lately, these two custom home decor projects have been a nice diversion and I am pleased with how they turned out (and so are my customers!).  The first piece is a box-style cushion that sits in a metal bench frame.  The edges are piped and I placed a lapped zipper on the backside as you can see in the first image.

I used some handy techniques for constructing this style of piped and gusseted cushion with clean edges and sharp corners (it can be tricky to make those corners look good!), and I promise to take pictures next time and post a tutorial.

Next up is one of my favorite pillow designs.  I love the organic nature of the raw edges of leather hides, and I enjoy piecing together scraps in ways that highlight this detail.  This brown and tan pillow features decorative machine stitching along the raw edge in a variegated brown and tan thread.  The backside of the pillow features the same detail in an envelope closure, complete with horn button.  This pillow was made to coordinate with the other two leather pillows pictured below that I sold on Etsy; I can’t wait until I have some more free time in the studio to make more of these designs in a variety of colored leathers!