I had the pleasure and honor of making a set of three memorial pillows for the grandchildren of a man who passed away six years ago. His widow described him as adventurous, kind, creative, fun-loving, and thoughtful. He also loved cars, in particular, hot rods and would go to car shows every year, often returning with a jeans jacket with that year’s design on it. It was out of two of those jackets that I made the three pillows.

 

We chose to focus on patch working divided sections of each jacket’s printed portion.

I made a checkerboard of printed and solid squares.

The jeans fabric was quite thick and required top stitching on every seam.

I used some of my ticking fabrics for the backings which added some nice patterning.

I love working on some of these smaller, more focused projects, using very specific garments that have a story all of their own.