Feed Bag Pillows

 

A few months ago, I spent a week putting together samples of different vintage fabrics, swatches and antiques as "inspiration" for an upcoming home collection I'm designing.  More on the home collection later...

One shop in Pennsylvania I love to visit is an old general store where you can still find vintage feed bags for sale for about $1 a piece.   I decided to buy a whole stack and have some pillows made, where they shuffled back and forth between meetings as an "idea" for a product line.    But now that the inspiration stage is over, I decided to pull them out of the prop closet and decorate with them.

I absolutely love the Morton's salt bag pillow up top.   It's so soft and worn and the pillow insert inside makes it all cushy and great to curl up with.

 

And I took a larger feed bag and just used the very graphic rooster part to make a smaller throw pillow.   I love the extra wide edging on it...gives it a clean, handmade touch that somehow works.

I have lots more feedbag pillows left in "case" form in need of inserts.   I could go nuts and just have a million of these pillows around the house, but I think for now, these two will do.    Maybe I'll give some away on the blog down the road... could be fun!

Comments

[Beth Longtine]

OVER HERE! OVER HERE! Throw them my way please! :-)

[berton]

I love them!! Please give some of them away. Would you give us the name of the store that sells them?

[Tommy]

What a great idea, Danny! Very creative, stylish, and green, as always!

[Caitlin]

I worked in the agronomy department at my university and fell in love with vintage seed bags! I wanted to do this, but the bags were too decrepit!

[mel24]

I used one as a wall hanging in the kitchen for a while but the pillows are great!

[Jayme]

I love the idea of reusing materials for home decor!

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[Tracey]

Hi,
I am interested in the name of the store that sells the feed bags.