Thoughts about cushions (or pillows!) The secret sister details have all gone out now. Some people have not given much detail about their likes and dislikes. So, how about telling us here what your ideal cushion would be like. Anyone can contribute - you don't have to be part of the exchange!
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211079I have received a gift but it has me confused. It is an apron, not a pillow. I have not participated in any apron exchanges, only this one, so it has to be for this. The apron is very nice. I will post a picture later.
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22595211079Back to the front of the line - in case anybody else wants to add their likes and dislikes.
13250Thank you for all the great ideas posted!!!
We have a three-season cottage-type room, which we call "The Looney Bin". It's theme is loons [duh?], and the colours are olive green, creamy off-white and grey.
P.S. Obviously, we love laughing!!!
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by camylow
17 Aug 2012
wish i had a cottage room all to myself..my dh made me a 21'x21'sewing room...he moved his tv, recliner and coffee table in there...then turns around and tells me i need to clean up my sewing mess...I thought that was my room...hehehehe
by meganne
20 Aug 2012
Now THIS is a fantastic response, your SS should have a great idea of your colours and I guess if it was something with a funny design it would fit in really well.
Good onyer!!! hugs, Meg
5648I don't remember what I put down for my pillow choice so if my secret sister hasn't already started a pillow herz is my wish. Not frilly or lacey, jewel tones of wine/burgandy, gold etc, My Christmas colors are those colors too. A zipper would be a plus but not necessary because some do not like to do zippers. I'm glad that this thread was started because it totally changed what I was going to make after I saw what my secret sister liked. I had picked out a completely different color scheme for her pillow so it was back to the store again.
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22595Ok here goes, Thinking i would like this cushion to go in the caravan so that when i am away from my comp cute is still with me.. I am introducing the Colors Teal, peacock blue, gold, yellows and tan.
Butterflies are my preference but thats up to my SS if she wants to. Hope this helps you. To all, Have fun making this swap , as i am sure that all will LOVE our homemade cushions made with love. Pauline ")
42046Hi Secret Sister, I want this cushion to be your imagination, style, and color, because no one gives me handmade items. My family and friends expect handmade items from me, but they don’t give me any handmade items. I will tell you something about me. I have a mini farm and rescue donkeys, dwarf goats, and chickens and love bright colors. I will appreciate any thing you make for me, because it thought and love you put in this cushion.
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842Well my SS has not put up anything here yet, hope she sees this now. Hugs Yvonne
132773oops! sorry for the duplication. I am not very tidy, so my apologies.
Hugs, Bonnie
6803My message went up in smoke ! LOL..
Here is a couple picture of my sewing room. This should help my SS.
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6803This gives me soooo many ideas! I think I gave enough detail.
this cushion cover will go to my sewing room. The walls are orchid. I have pegboards and cork board on the walls, and they are full of papers. My pegboards are full of rulers and such. I do like fabric that has sewing type designs on it. (bobbins, buttons, sewing thread,etc.
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by meganne
20 Aug 2012
A very helpful answer, there are so many gorgeous sewing/craft designs, I would have a ball making your cushion if I was your SS for this swap. :-))) Hugs, Meg
6803I would very much like to use this cushion cover for as pillow in my sewing room. I am into quilting and embroidery and I love earthy colours with here and there perhaps something bright. BUT I also love susrprises
18960I'm not really fussed at all, but my favourites would be earthy colours like Sue's or blues or greens, but I like best to be surprised. The more fun or interesting techniques used, the better. Especially as we all enjoy seeing the photos when they're put up. Marji a monkey would be very much at home in this house but whoever has redbacks or any other spiders, you can keep em, thanks!
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by meganne
16 Aug 2012
Well, see, now THAT is vital information!
I also hate spiders AND snakes yet I love witches (thinking Halloween here)(white witches like in Charmed) :-)
So, NO spiders here please. LOL!!!
23163Hi My cushion will live in my lounge room which is fawn walls, brown lounge and broken with Yellow and animal prints and my new fish project has pride of place I don't have a good imagination so would be happy with anything Hugs Raelene
76409I'm not doing this swap, but thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in. I understand exactly what Meganne is saying, I just hate to guess what kind of design somebody would like, it's scary! Now me, I'm easy, a cat. Or several cats. Big or small. But, I secretly hate monkeys. Not, I suppose, that you'd put monkeys on a cushion, but you never know. I just love Lilylady's answer, "a cardinal on a branch in red & green"--gotcha!! That makes it so easy. You can choose the style & which design, but with those kind of directions you can't go wrong. Maybe, if you can't pin down exactly what you like, at least say what you'd really NOT like, like monkeys. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone gets, you are all so talented and creative. Hugs, Marji
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by meganne
16 Aug 2012
Oh Marji, I am totally not creative! I am a monkey see, monkey can do. LOL!!!
But this monkey can't think up projects for trying.
I don't even know what kind of fabric to use to make a cushion for someone else, all of mine are either lace or satin, though a special friend recently sent me two beautiful corduroy cushions with cats embroidered on them and I just love them so much.
by meganne
16 Aug 2012
satin, though a special friend recently sent me two beautiful corduroy cushions with cats embroidered on them and I just love them so much.
by nonna57
16 Aug 2012
Polly wants a visit heheheee or do you want to raid my spotlight storeage cupboard . Anytime you know where the keys are :))))))
33451I had hoped that I gave good enough color scheme ideas for the SS, but just in case, and since DH does not like pillows on the bed - we can stick to the living room....My colors are in beige and greens, with touch of gold and coral...I like cottage look designs. My family room was done by my husband, so it is done in browns, and blues..mostly leather furniture and no florals. Hopefully I have given enough information....good luck to all SS doing this fun project.
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by shirlener88
20 Aug 2012
It sounds like you might get a lovely cushion to suit your taste with this help.
44904I think my secret sister gave me good ideas if not in her email she did on here.
II like blue and green I like Frogs the pertty ones have frogs every where.also like brown and fall flowers Christmas snowmen and angels love fairies also
Lenamae
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32767well I am thinking that I would like my cushion cover to be for Christmas time sew that every time I take it out I will remember how special it is that a cutie made it just for me! I don't however like the traditional green & reds! I do like blues & silvers & I love snowmen too!!!! I do up my living room every year & it is pretty fancy looking (or sew I have been told) & I love it! I love the Victorian style but only @ Christmas time! I am sure that I will love it regardless as it was made just with me in mind! Hugs Loralye
299559Hello Cuties! I think I gave some good ideas in my original e-mail, but reading through this, I did forget to mentoin that I, too, would like to be able to remove the cover and wash (no husband, but a slobbery dog and a hairy cat !!) I would use the cushion for my bedroom on my rocking chair which right now is totally naked (not a good look for me, either LOL). Light pink, lavendar, and light beige is my color scheme but even with that please do not limit yourself. If you have something in mind you would like to make, please do. I would be most grateful for anything handmade by my SS. I am usually the one giving and not getting back because I don't really have anyone near me who sews so I would absolutely, positively, without a doubt LOVE LOVE LOVE anything my SS wants to make for me. Thanks for listening. Hugs to all. Lois W.
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by shirlener88
20 Aug 2012
Lois, it sounds to me like you will get a lovely cushion to suit your tastes from what you have said here.
1494I love the 1st and 3rd cushions shown below by Stella,if that helps my swap partner ,my home is country theme.i have a navy lounge and a pinky beige carpet , our wall are brick which is pinky beige with ash bits ,its called desert sands.
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by shirlener88
20 Aug 2012
Oh I bet your get a lovely cushion for your lounge and you will be thrilled with it.
by aussiequilter
20 Aug 2012
I'm sure I will Shirlene , I guess I should have added I love mammy dolls ,and country style.
23581A neutral colour that is easy to remove for wash is always a winner!! :-)
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847Gee! SHEESH! Golly and Gosh! Do you ever get the feeling you are trying to pull hen's teeth?????
I am the world's worst at coming up with ideas, I can never decide what to do, what to make and I get physically sick to my stomach with worry that my SS won't like what I come up with.
I may sound like I am all confident and creative but believe me I am not.
If my recipient hasn't given enough info to help me make her something she will truly love, enough to keep and display, then I come to Cute and start begging you all not to be so stingy with expressing your likes and dislikes.
So here I am, BEGGING for understanding, nobody likes admitting they have no imagination, but now you all now, I'm a realist with absolutely no imagination and I need my SS to state OUTRIGHT....
PLEASE, what kind of design would you like on your cushion?
What would you love, more than anything?
Whatever the design, I can create it if it doesn't exist, but I can't read minds.
I know your colours but that isn't enough and all I want is for you to be thrilled with your cushion.
Meganne
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by momhome
16 Aug 2012
I have to agree Meg - please -please-please SS give me some idea of what you like besides the color and where it will live. Like Meg, I am not imaginative.
by babie
20 Aug 2012
I know how you feel - perhaps the reason why I decided not to join in. Maybe next time.
122864I hope I gave my SS enough info. Really though I am not picky. I like almost everything. My bedroom is turquoise and kinda lime green. My living room is beige, blue, and light green with a hint of maroon thrown in. But it doesn't have to fit those color schemes as I like so many colors and designs. I am very open to being surprised. Just have fun making it.
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by shirlener88
20 Aug 2012
I bet you will be surprised and very pleased with the cushion being made for you.
13250Thanks Sue for this. I think my SS will have plenty to go by from the email that she received. (colours will not matter as it is for my sewing room, my chair is a high back in black)
Hope that the SS that I got will see this and put some clues besides her colours for her lounge.
Hugs Yvonne
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132773I love all of them, I would count myself blessed if I got any one of them. I love pillows, I have them all over the house. I even have them on the door knobs. I made one just the other day for my bed. I think I posted it in projects here, but I am not sure. I'll look and if I can can not find it. I will post it again. As for my ideal pillow would be one of fall colors, or Christmas. fall I do greens, golds,orange, off whites,wine reds,. Please no Halloween, I decorate for fall Sept.1 and keep it up till day after Thanksgiving.So witchs and ghosts are out.
As for Christmas I decorate with the old colors of Red and Greens, any thing about the birth of Jesus.
Santa, Snowmen ( snowmen I keep out till March). And of course any thing angels.
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7161I love throw pillows and make a lot. I change them out by the season.
Living room is in creams/mauves/jades/with a tiny bit of blue and red...and I have several oriental carvings and items in there. Right now I am in the process of doing some oriental designs on pillows.
Bedroom is ocean themed - and have just completed a set of sea shell pillows, and blue work sailing ships.
I tend to prefer tailord pillows with piping.... seldom do ruffles anymore.
MJDG
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3562I felt I sent some good details with my email - but I really do like peach & light green - but I wouldn't care if it were a pale pink, either. I like the 4 cushions that Stella has made here, but wouldn't want my Secret Sister to go to that much trouble, if they had never done that sort of work before. Anything simple, but with a slight Victorian or girly LQQK would suit me. Hehehe!
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51413562These are some examples of some I have done in the past. Maybe we can get an idea of what some of you like.Of course there is always some patchwork or applique.
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
Oh Stella, I just love the first four cushions, they are simply gorgeous! The doggie ones are nice too, beautifully made, but I'm a cat lady so if they were cats i'd be drooling. :-)))
hugs n love, Meg
by theduchess
12 Aug 2012
Thanks, I have given them as gifts.But when I go to their homes I've never seen them. maybe they didn't like them.I'm easy anything anyone makes I like. partial to sea mist green (light aqua)or soft yellow.
by minicow
13 Aug 2012
What a shame the cushions aren't displayed- they are so lovely with a lot of love put into them, and even though they do not know it they are very lucky to receive gifts from you- please keep enjoying making gifts for others - know that this Cutie loves you -hugs and sparkles from minicow
by shirlener88
13 Aug 2012
Stella, these are so very lovely and I adore the 1st four, too. My colors are in peach, not rose - but they still would looke nice in my place. Hehehe! So wht do you like for yours? It is a shame when you give something - that you never see it displayed.
by camylow
13 Aug 2012
oh my Gosh...absolutely stunning...1 love #1, #3, & #4...I simple love victorian/shabby chic...however, i have messy young adults and a messy grandchild in my home, no whites for me..all my beautiful Fairy Figurines are boxrd up...shamefull too..surely I have well over 300 beautiful figurines...maybe one day when its just me and the ole dh, my home will be more pleasing to the eye...
by theduchess
13 Aug 2012
For myself ANYTHING is welcomed.Just wanted to show some of you that some love the frilly or even the plain. I just throw mine together and add an insert . These are easy to clean. The fancy ones I gave to ladies w/o children. White for me is too clean.My feel-good colors are Lt peach(salmon) or a sea mist green.
by babie
15 Aug 2012
I am in love with no 3 and 4 - they are so beautiful. ***. Sorry did not mean the others are not beautiful too. All is great looking.
by marjialexa
15 Aug 2012
Gosh, Stella, these look so professionally done if you hadn't said you made them, I would have thought 'up-scale department store' purchase. Wow.
by greysewist
16 Aug 2012
Beautiful selection of cushions, Stella. Thanks for showing us all and for inspiration. Out of those my house would suit the dogs best :)
by meganne
16 Aug 2012
I simply cannot understand anyone, receiving these lovely cushions, not showing them off with pride, that you thought enough of them to GIVE them such a gift from the heart. That is just shameful.hugs n love, Meganne
by theduchess
16 Aug 2012
I know what you mean. One of the first things I received since we started exchanging things is something I use EVERYDAY. You know who you are. It's a small zip purse that has one plastic side. This has been (to me) worth it's weight in gold. Since I am always in-out of hospital this is perfect to carry med cards, military id. and $2.00 Thank you !Thank you. I have used EVERYTHING else that has been sent to me. Love it all.
by zoefzoef
20 Aug 2012
Now I feel sorry for saying no to this swap. sooo nice cushions.. I fall in love with them. But I know I will be too busy in September. Just post all the nice cushions you receive.. I can dream of them..Have fun you all !!
by killiecrankie
29 Aug 2012
Love the cushions especially the dog silhouettes.Are the dogs embroidered ,if not where did you get the fabric from?
15982My living room is in cream, beige and brown and is full of books, musical instruments and wood carvings. I am a fan of cushions but the covers do need to be washable as neither dog nor husband is fully civilised. (I hesitated to say house trained - LOL) Earth colours would be my choice.
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
WOW, Interesting. What kind of wood carvings? The fertility kind, or more civilised, like birds, etc.?
I love wood carvings but don't have a single one, maybe I should take up a new hobby. :-))) It is fabulous to learn about your Cute sisters. Hugs,
by spendlove
12 Aug 2012
They have been collected from East Africa, the Dolomites and Switzerland and are mostly figurative. There are some fossils and crystals too - forgot them the first time!
by shirlener88
13 Aug 2012
OH I bet that someone could get a great idea of what to make you Sue from this. But then you know who your SS is, don't you?
140717mine idea would be a chick-a-dee or cardinal sitting on a branch of pine needles, outlines with christmas green and red and some gold.
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
Oh that sounds lovely, a special cushion for Christmas. I love Chickadees and Cardinals, they are such gorgeous birds.
41781Sue did you send an email or pm ,I havent received either with my partner yet
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23581Thank you Sue for doing thid for us - a cushion of my choice would be mainly neutral in colour (love calico/homespun/shade on shade fabrics) and the use of highlight fabrics in terracotta, dark reds, olive greens, mustard yellows, dark blue. I really do favour Australian prints/colours and embroidery designs. Like plain, simple lines like strips/borders/blocks or patchwork- maybe a featured square in centre and like one colour redwork designs, the use of variegated thread or shades of the one colour in embroidry designs.
I'm not fussed with lacy, frilly, busy looking cushions, embroidered medallions and ....even though I love cows(has to be real ones) I don't like them on any decor items. Hope this helps - I'm sure I will love what my SS makes for me.
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
Great answer Denise, I immediately had a picture of Aboriginal type designs and colours, with Ayers Rock or something from Glenn Harris,embroidered in the centre. Does that sound about right???
Hugs n roses, Meganne
5141OH, and the reason I haven't put my (own) preferences here is because I think I gave my SS heaps of insight into likes and dislikes, in the email Sue asked us for...... I am so aware of how difficult it is choosing what to make for someone who is too bashful to speak up.
Come on girls, give your SS plenty of ideas so it will be easier for her and she will KNOW she is making something you will be thrilled with.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
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by thecraftycritter
12 Aug 2012
Ditto to all of the above!! But my SS gave me nothing to go on, sure hope she comes up with at least a color!! Or she may get something to hide in a closet! Thanks Meganne for harassing just a bit, it surely helps!
by minicow
13 Aug 2012
Gosh - hope this is not me as I forgot/didn't/omitted/other to put preferences and colour when signing up to the cushion swap sooooo maybe this thread will help other SS with the cushion swap
122864Mine must be made for easy removal for laundry, I usally have zips in mine. (I am a dust free freak)
Big bold designs on plain background are my choice.
Hugs Bev
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
So if someone gave you a big bold bum, you would like it???? hahahahaha!
Sorry Bev, but saying you like big bold designs leaves it wide open and doesn't help your SS choose a design for you.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
by meganne
15 Aug 2012
It's a joke sunshine, you know, something supposed to make you laugh. Seeing someone mooning (which I hate BTW) is the first thing that popped into my head when I read your clue.
I have no idea what I would do for "big bold" and I am sure there are many who would be stumped if this is the only clue they were given.
I apologise if you can't see that I was just trying (with a little Aussie humour) to help your SS.
Especially since we can't go back to all the other posts on likes and dislikes. Sincere apologies!
by meganne
15 Aug 2012
many who would be stumped if this is the only clue they were given.
I apologise if you can't see that I was just trying (with a little Aussie humour) to help your SS.
Especially since we can't go back to all the other posts on likes and dislikes. Sincere apologies!
7875Sue, I like cushions to be simple, not flouncy or lacey, in shades of teal,pale blue and or pale aqua green. I intend to put my new cushion on the bed in our new caravan, so that when we travel I can see it.
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by meganne
12 Aug 2012
So Ruth you don't care what is on it? If someone put an outhouse or a dunny pan on your cushion you would be ecstatically happy with it??? LOL!!!!
hugs n roses, Meganne
by shirlener88
13 Aug 2012
I have lots of idea's of what would be pretty in those shades and I am not thinking outhouses or a dunny pan, at all. I think it is special that you would want to put it in your caravan for traveling, too.
by grafiau
16 Aug 2012
Actually Meganne the outhouses and dunnies from Glen Harris are great, and I am in the process of doing a whole series of them for our stall, and although they wouldnt fit with teal etc, they would be appropriate for a caravan trip wouldnt they, lol. Perhaps I should elaborate, I like small flowers, and japanese designs, not Kanji, but bonsai's, geisha's and the like, abstract designs (art deco) willow pattern, and varigated thread designs. I hope that helps my S.S. Cheers Ruth
by meganne
16 Aug 2012
Oh Ruth, you are so funny, I actually thought that when I wrote it. Polly made an outhouse design to hang on their caravan door, that's what made me think of it. My Dad and uncle used to photgraph every different outhouse they saw on their trips, it was quite amusing viewing.
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