Love Pillow

I was looking in a magazine with my daughter recently and saw the love pillow (in purple) and loved it.  I like rectangular and of course the purple caught my eye.  A couple of days later, I had been working with my friend on planning the bridal shower and I thought that pillow would really be cute as a little give away gift for the bride.

So the brown is my rendition of the purple one.  There were no small rectangular pillow forms so I ended up with a 14 x 14.  I have shown a side view of the pillow so you could see the pipping.  I actually had in mind a paisley print for pipping and a solid back but could never find anything I really liked so I just went with a solid back.

I looked at the original pillow and traced the word love.  I used french knots to form the word and so did they but I think they wrapped the needle four times and I only wrapped mine two times.  I like the way the purple pillow looks the best but my turned out ok. 

I did the front of the pillow in about four hours and I had someone to do the pipping and put the back on.  I'm not the best seamstress and I wanted it to look nice.  I wanted to share this idea because I think these pillows look cute thrown in with other pillows that you might have on your couch and like the purple just sitting alone on a chair would also be eye catching. 

Try making one using your favorite word on your favorite color!