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January 06, 2011 in DIY, Interior Design

It's no secret to my family and close friends that I have a bit of an obsession with bird silhouettes.  If you were at my wedding this summer, it was pretty obvious...

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Photos courtesy of Ben Hallissy

Then, of course, there are the ceramic birds we have in our apartment along with several other bird-related items...and now this.  I had been planning to make a pillow for the Stockholm chair in our living room for awhile and I had been admiring these Thomas Paul Silhouette Pillows.  When I started looking for silhouette templates to trace, I stumbled across this bird template on marthastewart.com.

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I tried to resist but Alex talked me into using it.  After Alex's mom had helped me sew a pillow cover out of plain white fabric while we were visiting for New Years, this is what I did:

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I printed out the template on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and cut out the bird with my Exacto knife.  I then pinned it to the front side of the pillow and traced the outline with a pencil.  After placing a piece of cardboard inside the pillow cover to keep the paint from bleeding through, I grabbed some brown fabric paint and a brush and went to town.

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After I finished painting, I let it dry overnight.  Finally, I placed the pillow insert in the cover, hand sewed the bottom edge, and...

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Voile.  Am I the only one obsessed with bird silhouettes these days?

Tags: bird silhouette, diy, pillow
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