Monday, March 10, 2014

Are You Thinking About Ruffles?

I am excited about this hop and want to thank Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt for sponsoring and Amy at Sew Incredibly Crazy for being our cheerleader.
I have been thinking about ruffles quite a bit these past few weeks.  When I heard about this blog hop I decided to join in right away because I had a few projects involving ruffles that I had wanted to get done.  Joining blog hops is a great motivator to help get projects going.

I saw a tutorial for these kitchen towels on a Riley Blake video, you can find it here.  I gathered fabric from my stash that will go great in my new kitchen.  We are having new cabinet doors installed in April and changing some colors so my new towels are ready and waiting.



My next project is something I have been thinking about making for some time.  I had the idea but was not sure how I was going to go about it.  I used some of my French General fabric and created a very long ruffle and made a "flower" out of it.  Then from another piece of French General fabric I made the ruffled "leaves".




This is one of those projects that just comes together as you go along.  The circle of fabric below will be the center of my flower.





The white fabric is called sandcastle, I like the feel of it and use it for embroidery and often for pillows.  I added strips of natural linen all around and buttons in each corner.


The back is made with the same fabric used for the leaves.




I had fun with all of my projects and have been inspired by all of the other participants in the "Think Ruffles" hop.  I have listed all of the other bloggers sharing their Ruffles projects today below.

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Have fun and I hope you are inspired to go out and sew some ruffles!

52 comments:

  1. The ruffles on the towels are a cute touch and love that ruffled flower pillow…thanks for sharing :)

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  2. Your tea towels are sew sweet. Your ruffled flower pillow is lovely. Beautiful fabrics and colors. Thank you for sharing ... :) Pat

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  3. Your fabrics are so calming and that flower pillow is a beauty. Such a feminine piece of art. It just makes my heart sing. Love all the little details.

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  4. Wonderful projects. Your flower is really lovely, the fabrics you chose are really pretty.

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  5. Lovely pillow with that big ruffled rose!

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  6. thanks for sharing, love the cushion.

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  7. Lovely towels...your fabric choices are so pretty and sew are your ruffles. That pillow is just awesome!

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  8. Cute kitchen towels. I love your flowery pillow too. It's so pretty.

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  9. Sherry, how lovely..your t towels look perfect your ruffled flower pillow divine…soooo pleased you shared so much of YOU ….

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  10. I love, love your pillow. Thanks for sharing your creativity.

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  11. Your projects are so pretty. The abundant ruffled flower on your pillow is yummy!

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  12. yet another original idea ... nice guest towels. The pillow is sweet.

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  13. What great ruffles, love the towels and the pillow! :)

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  14. The towels and pillow are beautiful! Love the flower on the pillow!

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  15. What lovely projects. Great job!

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  16. What a lovely flower...makes a gorgeous pillow!

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  17. I really like the towels you made, but the flower is outstanding! Gorgeous and creative! Thanks for sharing!

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  18. Like both the towels and the pillow. Would hate to actually use the towels in MY kitchen -- am a very messy cook and grab a towel for all kinds of spills, on me, on the floor, etc. -- and would be afraid of ruining them. Now the pillow would match my living room perfectly, and I'd have no problem using that at all. Fun projects. Thank you for sharing them with us.

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  19. Lovely flower pillow and your towels are just as lovely. Great projects!

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  20. Love your flower pillow just awesome! Towels, what a great way to decorate them.

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  21. Your towels and pillow are wonderful! That flower really turned out beautifully!

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  22. The towels are really cute but I especially love your flower - gorgeous. Do you mind telling me where you get "Sandcastle"? I love that! blessings, marlene

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  23. Oh Sherry...that is just BEAUTIFUL...both of them..but the pillow.... WOW.
    and your little blog is so sweet...I know i will visit here often!

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  24. Enjoy your new kitchen! Very pretty. Love French General.

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  25. Beautiful fabric that French General is...and what great projects you made with it. I love the flower you created. What a fabulous pillow it made!

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  26. How fun to create lovely new ruffled towels for your kitchen redo. This pillow is beautiful and the ruffled flower is very chic. Thank you sew very much for Hopping...

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  27. Your towels turned out lovely...It gave me good ideas. I love your pillow though. I would love to learn, or try, to make a flower like that. It looks so pretty and kinda antiquish.

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  28. My favorite is the pillow, great for cottage style.

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  29. Love your projects...and the pillow is making me think I need one just like it. ;)

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  30. That pillow is ruffly perfection!!! Great flower :)

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  31. That is the most amazing fabric flower. The colors are just too awesome.

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  32. I love the fabric flower on the pillow! It looks so fun and whimsical.

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  33. that fabric flower is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing

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  34. Beautiful! I love the look of dimension and texture in our ruffle flower. Great job! ~Shari

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  35. I love your ruffled flower. Really lovely and I can see it used in many other projects. Well done,
    cheers
    maggie

    maggiemine42@gmail.com

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  36. Sherry,
    Your pillow is just lovely and the ruffles on the towels add just the right touch. Sew glad that you joined us during the Ruffle Hop!

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  37. Sherry - I love your pillow. It is so very pretty. And the Tea Towels are cute!
    I am a new follower. Thank you for the inspiration!
    xo jan@ Sew and Sow farm

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  38. The towels are very cool! But LOVE the Flower you made for the Pillow!! AWESOME!!

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  39. Beautiful! Beth @ Words & Stitches, pbstrand@msn.com

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  40. Your towels are lovely and that flower is just gorgeous!

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  41. I like those kitchen towels! Nice pillow too. So happy to see that so many came by to see what you are ruffling up. :) Best wishes, Tammy

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  42. The pillow is really lovely! I like all the fabrics you used in it. The tea towels will look so nice in your renovated kitchen next month.

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  43. Love the towels, beautiful. Thanks for sharing

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  44. You are definitely ready for the cabinets when it is time to pretty up the kitchen with those cute ruffled towels. The pillow with the ruffled flower is wonderful!

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  45. Your towels will be so nice to hang when things are finished in the kitchen; a great idea to have them done before rather than doing it afterwards. Love that flower and I did notice all the hemming you did on the edge - I appreciate all that extra effort. It turned out so cute and I was surprised at the size until I saw it on the pillow. Super!

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  46. Great towels. Your pillow is absolutely gorgeous. Great way to use ruffles.

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  47. The towels are very nice, but the pillow is fabulous. Love the fabric and the look of the pillow. Thanks for sharing!

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  48. the flower cushion is gorgeous! What a statement piece

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