I've been collecting T-shirts I like for awhile now, with the idea of making pillow covers out of them. I came across a few Iron Chef T-shirts at Goodwill a few trips ago, washed them up and decided to use some Asian fabric scraps with a black muslin backing for my first T-shirt pillow foray.
I went with a flanged, envelope enclosure type pillow which I think turned out pretty cute, actually...though I must tell you that frankly, the fact that it "turned out" at all seems like a minor miracle considering the number of times I had to get my seam ripper out. =^) I should probably follow a pattern, or perhaps even follow along with some instructions, though I suppose I will now never make a few particular mistakes again. Maybe the "trial by fire" method has some merit after all. Or maybe I'm just confabulating (a wonderful term I learned in reading a recent New Scientist article about the little stories people make up for themselves that serve to justify their behavior -- often basically rewriting their own histories as they go -- ring any bells? I feel I've certainly run across a few too many "master" confabulators...but I digress...)
<pause for air> Now that I have the basic envelope enclosure pillow creation method down I'm excited about making some more! I have some cool seventies and eighties T's I want to "pillowcize."