Sewing pillows

Our Women's Fellowship at church has our annual silent auction coming up a week from today.   The money raised will all go to charity.  This year my contributions are machine embroidered pillows on velvet and velveteen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 The way I hooped the velvet was to hoop up stabilizer and then pinned the velvet on to the stabilizer.  This eliminates the  hooping marks on the velvet.                                         

The second picture  shows the machine doing the embroidery.  the third shows the finished embroidery. (The hoop is still below the fabric)

Here the machine is embroidering the blue velveteen  pillow top.   

Here are the two finished red ones.  One of the two blue pillows is below.  The red ones have a velvet cording that I made and zippers.  The blue ones are basic square pillows.  After spending many hours of basting before sewing, I think it will be a long time before I make velvet anything!