Cucumbersome » toile pillow http://www.cucumbersome.com DIY Crafts, Tutorials and More. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Toile, Two Ways http://www.cucumbersome.com/toile-two-ways/ http://www.cucumbersome.com/toile-two-ways/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:29:22 +0000 britt http://www.cucumbersome.com/?p=770 toile_compare
Left: Urban Outfitters. Right: Mine.
Eerie. I just posted my pillow last week, and UO just listed their version. I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought that Arren’s idea was worth replicating. The collective consciousness at work?

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Toile. I think it’s one of my favorite words. Twahhl. The fabric can be rather matronly, though. A few months ago, I saw a toile pillow in an article on the Canadian House & Home website featuring Canadian bloggers (article has since been removed). It was in a really great shot of Arren Williams’ home, and said pillow looked like as if it had been colored in with highlighters. Very tongue-in-cheek. You can see the photo here, on Arren’s blog (scroll down). I emailed him to find the picture, and he told me that he had used highlighters. Fantastic.
toile_color
I had bought half a meter of toile from Chintz & Company. So I got some highlighters and set to work. Coloring is very soothing, by the way. I was worried about filling it in too much, but I can always add to it. Here it is on our sofa:
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I’m working on another (different) pillow but I think it goes quite well with the print we have above the sofa. The print is by Jessica Ritter and it’s called “Beneath the Surface”. We got a great deal on the Gus Modern sofa. It was the floor model at Koolhaus. Our apartment is still feeling a little sparse but Ryan and I are making a coffee table (more on that later), and I’ve been looking for some sort of rug.

Thanks to Arren for the great idea!

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