I finished the body pillow for Annabel over the weekend in my newly cleaned studio. You may remember the pile of fabric from my fall cleaning post the other day. The moment Sarah Jane Studios announced the 'Let's Pretend' fabric line, I knew what I wanted to do with the 'Make Believe' panel. Using the tutorial I wrote for Colton's personalized body pillow, it didn't take much time.
It can be nervewracking following one of my own tutorials. I worry I'm going to run into a major boo boo in the pattern or measurements and realize that everyone has been too kind to point it out! In this case I had to make a few adjustments to the pattern; I had a 38" panel and the pattern calls for 42". I'm happy with how it turned out (and that I didn't need to make any edits to the pattern!).
There's a great tutorial here on the Sarah Jane Studios blog on making a standard-size pillow sham with the same panel I used. You can't help but smile at it! I used part of the fabric to make this journal cover, too.
xo Karin
PS - I can't believe it, but it took a total of TEN hours to put the flat file together. It's a beast, but I looooove it. It's as though it was built for the space. Ten hours and a few minor scrapes later, we were all super happy to recycle the huge instruction packet!
