Pillows and Tapestries

With the Forest Dweller outfits finally finished, I was taking the week to catch up with some work on my website, and finish using up some of the stuff I'd started.  Back in early December I'd found two table runners at Value Village....

The first thing I did was to make two new banners to hang in the castle at Christmas....

But what to do with the leftovers?  I decided to turn them into pillows and cushions....

A week after finding the table runners, I found a big Rococo tapestry in a nice frame.  I thought the tapestry could be cut up to make two smaller ones for an upcoming story, and the frame could be cut down to fit around a painting that still needed a frame. So Jan took the frame off and reworked it for the painting.   

​The tapestry was extremely faded, and I wondered if washing it would help, and it did brighten it a little bit. Then I proceeded to cut a section off, and started framing it with leftover cream borders from the red table runner....

It turns out that it was actually good that the tapestry was so faded, as the camera really picks up the colours and brightens them.  It might have been too distracting in the background had it still been the original bright colours.

Anyways, I did my best to make a nice straight border, but it still ended up uneven on the outer edge, but there's nothing I can do about it at this point so it is what it is.