All Covered in Pillows

Or: Pillow Delivery Team of Two

What to do? Tracery to the rescue.

My chief helper and I gathered up a suitable representation of colors and patterns and toted them off to tracery Interiors for their very Grand Opening.

 

We delivered piles of my pillows to tracery Interiors (It does rock!) in Mountain Brook, Alabama.

The pillows are living comfortably now all over the shop. Go take a look. You'll probably love them. Check out their blog for locations.

[I have the best helper ever. Thanks, kiddo.]

Piles of Pillows

I chose the most serene and tasteful, classy and classic linen and paint colors.

I stenciled yard upon yard of the fabrics by hand in Turkish Rose and Morris Stevens patterns, encased the down-feather pillows, hid all the zippers away neatly in the seams, turned the flanges out precisely. The pillows multiplied and accumulated and piled up. They really piled up.

I had piles and piles of pillows. A plethora of pillows.

 

Lots of piles of pillows. More than these by far.

 What to do?

Hand-stenciled Linen Pillows | Tailored

 

Click. You know you want to.

 Dress me up. Dress me casual.

You'll be pleased with me. 

Ina Garten has a perfect Omelet for Two recipe. I suggest Bellinis to tag along.

Process | Linen Stenciling

If you want to make an omelet, you've got to crack some eggs. —Unknown

Or: How the process of hand-stenciling on linen is messy, but the result is quite pretty

But wait!

• Pour stiff mug of coffee
• Put on bib overalls
• Lay out the tarp
• Assemble materials

Beginning to crack the eggs...  
Black hand-stenciled on natural linen...

Two eggs, over easy. 

Lengths of linen, hand-stenciled in black and in white on natural...

This is going to become a beautiful natural linen pillow. 

Welcome!

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns:
the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that
of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of
company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. [And the pillows, shams, duvets, shades, curtains...]

— Unknown