Mother's Day Photos and Pillow Covers

It's been a while since I updated my blog, so this is a belated post about the pillow covers I made for my mom for Mother's day. She's always complaining about how she's bored by her bedroom, so I decided to make it a little more visually interesting. To start with, I edited and blew up some photos she took from her trip to Ireland. (My mom is a bit of an amateur photographer, so it was hard picking just three good-looking pictures!) Costco was a great resource for printing the photos inexpensively, and the quality was great. After I'd picked out the pictures and stuck them in white frames picked up at Michael's Crafts, I quilted a couple of pillows in blue, white, and green to coordinate. I kind of made it up as a I went along, so there are green saw stars in the middle and some fancy HSTs making up the border. They have a simple envelope backing.