Felt Pillow - Commemorating Canada's 150th Birthday

In an earlier Post about designing a commemorative pillow, I provided some pictures of its development and the inspiration. Here it is ... done!

It certainly was fun creating the landscape. It took a lot of thought and effort to pull it together into a finished piece. The buttons came from deer antler shed on our property.

One of the challenges was that I had to felt the piece to a much harder state than I would normally do for a wall hanging. As it continued to shrink the definition faded. Consequently there was much more stitching to regain detail. Lots of fun, but awkward to do on a pillow.