Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Scandinavian Stitches

Finished my Finnish herring 'silakka' pillow.









Totally in love with my new craft book Scandinavian Stitches made by Syko, it has the sweetest little projects.

I made this pillow as a present but after completion I really really want to make one for myself. Or keep it even.

I picked up a few new techniques making it. The first was pulling the top thread through to the back and tying off. It really does make the top look neater rather than reverse sewing back and forth etc. And the second technique is using an embroidery thread to top stitch around applique. I didn't realise how much it would affect the look of the appliqued fish.

This pillow has been entered into Stitched in Color's Bloggers Pillow Party.

Wish me luck.

15 comments:

  1. How interesting, we have the word 'salacca' used to identify salted dried fish. It probably comes from silakka, every day I can learn something new. By the way your fish are superb.

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  2. I found this through the blogger pillow party. So cute!

    Taylor
    www.maryjanesandgaloshes.com

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  3. That's a project that caught my eye in the book as well. Yours turned out great!

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  4. this is cute, it's a fab book isn't it? When you say you used embroidery thread around the fish, do you mean in your machine? machine embroidery thread or hand? (sorry if it's a daft question, I'm new to sewing!)

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  5. Thanks for popping by. A happy new year to you. Love your cushions!
    carmel
    x

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  6. I can't say I like fishes but I do love these ones :))) Beautifull!

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  7. Hello! I love your pillow! I'm Finnish woman living in Crete and that's why my eye picked your pillow from the Pillow Party! It's really beautiful and I would like to try that applique technic, too!
    Best wishes Teje

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  8. Very nice! My oldest son would love this. He has a fish fetish!

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  9. I love your cushion ... I also have this book & a print of this on my wall !!

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  10. this is wonderful! i love what you're doing with your stitching on this and your auction pillow! nicely done!! -michelle

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  11. You are right about the top stitch with the embroidery thread. It just makes the fishies 'pop' (if fish can do such a thing). Great pillow.

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  12. I LOVE that book I just bought it and I love your pillow!! Hope you win!!

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  13. You are absolutely right about this book... I'm in love with all the darling projects in it.. Your pillow looks amazing!!
    I've been making a few projects myself from this book, you can check them out at http://sewhappiness.blogspot.com, if you like :-)

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