{"id":5946,"date":"2010-02-16T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:41:14","slug":"pretty-pillow-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5946","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Pillow Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marvelous xJane sent me a link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=15526568\">spider pillow<\/a> on Etsy, along with the comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This would be super easy to make oneself: just applique\/embroider some spiders onto a damask-style pillow covering (either before you make the pillow case if you&#8217;re so inclined, or on one that was bought in a store after-the-fact). I think a more subtle one spider off to the side would be cuter, but to each one&#8217;s own (and, of course, the limit needn&#8217;t be &#8220;spiders on pillows&#8221;). Cute for a Victorian\/gothic themed couch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I quite agree.  The Etsy listing doesn&#8217;t offer a lot of detail on the materials, but the tags on the item suggest that the spiders are felt appliques.  A standard square pillow is very easy to make, and if applique isn&#8217;t your thing (I&#8217;m really not sure how well the felt would hold up over time), you could embroider or even paint the design on the fabric.  I like the elegant look of the jacquard fabric, and if you nestled a little spider up in the corner it would be a secret bit of goth on an otherwise normal-looking pillow.<\/p>\n<p>The seller has several other appliqued pillows with darkish themes; I quite like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=14569336\">Nevermore<\/a> raven one as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marvelous xJane sent me a link to this spider pillow on Etsy, along with the comment: This would be super easy to make oneself: just applique\/embroider some spiders onto a damask-style pillow covering (either before you make the pillow case if you&#8217;re so inclined, or on one that was bought in a store after-the-fact). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}