Pillows, valances and wine, oh my!

I mentioned a while back that I have been helping a friend update her bedroom with some new valances. They have finally been hung and look great in her master bedroom. We still needed to deal with the bathroom though and finally decided only another valance would do. Her husband generously offered agreed to build another one. Unfortunately, the only printed fabric we had left to use were pillow shams, so I had to rip those out and sew them together. Once we had them on there we weren’t loving the way the seams looked so we decided to hide them with pieces of fabric. The end result looks great and the additional fabric totally looks like a design feature. We were obviously quite pleased with ourselves, so of course, celebrated.

Her many pillows are getting a face lift too. There is plenty of the plain fabric left so I should be able to cover all of them. So far I’ve only done two, including one that I embellished with embroidery from my new machine (pattern here)! She is a wine drinker, but ONLY of the Kendall Jackson Chardonnay variety so this motif seemed appropriate.