Sorry about the last minute - I didn't think I'd finish, but here are my opposite pillowcases.
My theme is "awake : asleep." No great inspiration here - just the question "what are pillowcases used for?" and I generally either go to sleep on them, or lie awake on them.
I actually had some text I thought about using on the cases. One is from Plutarch, to this effect:
When we are awake, we are in one common world;
When asleep, we are in a world of our own.And the other line I considered is from a sweet little poem by Thomas Dekker:
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.It was the second quote that won out, since there really is nothing better than awakening to smiles. But then I skipped the text idea, because I wanted to do faces. The faces are actually "inspired" by a line of stationery and notecards drawn and copyrighted by me when I was in college. One summer, to help raise money for school, I "marketed" a bunch of notecards and stationery similar to these faces, called "A few good laughs" (because everyone needs them). Since then, they've kind of been a "typical" item in my family's correspondence. The faces were made by tracing pennies.
For the pillow cases, I merely traced a plastic vitamin lid to make the circles and free-handed whatever came to mind for the faces. I used a pencil and a lot of spray starch to draw the circles, and I used regular DMC cotton and 19 different embroidery stitches.
Actually, I'm editing to start with the close-up of one, and then I'll show both and so forth...
Here are both pillow cases:
And here's just the white one followed by some close-ups:
And here's just the black one, followed by some close-ups:
I tried to keep the images "small"... sorry for the bulk! And sorry I couldn't do a close-up of each face - there are 46 altogether!
Let me know what you think!
And thanks for looking!
