Molly's Sketchbook: Loop de Loop Pillows

I am a chronic doodler. My school notebooks always had more scribbles of flowers, geometric shapes, and animals than actual notes. To this day, my Purl Bee notes look more like mysterious outsider art than useful information. One of my recurring doodle themes is a loop de loop motif.  I love the hypnotic repetition of it.

With this penchant for doodling, it’s no wonder that I love embroidery so much. It’s basically drawing with thread. Once you master a couple of basic stitches your needle and thread become as versatile as a pencil, but unlike a tossed off pencil sketch, embroidery has an elegant and refined finish.

These Loop de Loop Pillows combine the simple, breezy feeling of a notebook jot with the beauty of embroidery.  I used soft, rustic Prairie Cloth in a gorgeous natural color as the base and accented it with sumptuous black silk embroidery thread. These pillows are very simple to make but end up looking so modern and sophisticated. To awaken your own inner scribbler, please check out my Loop de Loop Pillows journal here.

Comments

[Tammy]

Love those pillows! There's so many color options that would look fantastic as well to match an decor!

: )

[Courtney]

Oh my goodness so cute and easy! I am definitely going to copy this some day.
thank you! love your blog.
xoxo

[Sarah @http://agirlintransit.blogspot.com/2011/03/]

These looks so great! A perfect project if you have the bug for some minor embroidery =)


- Sarah
http://agirlintransit.blogspot.com

[Adam]

Molly, these are great!

[Anne]

Love the felt ebook cases! I just received a Kindle from friends and can't wait to make one in Charcoal and Pink (39 & 25), So far I've made the Felt Baby Shoes and Coffee Cup cozies. Thanks for the always great ideas. Anne

[Kim]

I made a less expensive version of these using a creamy felt and they worked beautifully. They were made very well-received Christmas presents and were such a quick sew. I'll definitely be making these again.