Made: reading pillow
Project Notes: The Montessori By Hand pattern, now rebranded as Sew Liberated, is a totally cool design! I used my beloved Modern Flora home dec fabric and my equally beloved Denyse Schmidt fabric for the accents. The project has a lot of steps and I always find it tiresome to make long strips of bias tape. Nevertheless this came together fairly easily. I spent a lot of time cutting my pieces out with care so that the fabric design was never interrupted.
Mistakes/Complications: I didn’t use enough stuffing.
Notes for Next Time: err on the side of too much stuffing! if you have trouble closing it you can always remove stuffing! If there’s not enough than - take it from me - the pillow won’t be strong enough to support your book well. My book sinks into the pillow as though the pillow were part beanbag.