velvet ruffle pillow – Life On Virginia Avenue

This velvet ruffle pillow appears excellent nevertheless may be robust to make.

For the time being after church and a quick journey to Lowe’s, I made a decorative velvet ruffle pillow to associate with the pillows I made yesterday.  I adopted the directions from proper right here.  I’ve certainly not labored with brown velvet sooner than and it was a big quantity.  Not solely does it shed little balls should you try and make the ruffles, however it frays very badly.  Although, as soon as I checked the tutorial I consider her velvet frayed far more.  I do know it is type of the mannequin now nevertheless the husband isn’t an unlimited fan {and in truth I favor a cleaner edge too}.  I consider the tip product turned out pretty cute nevertheless I am not sure I am ready to make a second one {this one took me about three and a half hours}.  To not level out, velvet is NOT low-cost and folks ruffles take a number of material.  The perfect half – this was my first strive at ruffles.  So, it was undoubtedly a finding out course of.  I didn’t realized how so much they may shrink up width sensible, due to this fact the random areas in between each column.

Don’t ideas the strings inside the bottom left nook – I clearly must clip these.  I just like the look of velvets for fall and the holidays.  What do you assume – make a second ruffled one or comply with a basic sq.?