Ring Pillow Trial Run

Today, I finished the "trial run" ring pillow that I blogged about earlier in the year.  Some lessons I learned to use when I make the actual ring pillow:

1) iron silk before sewing into pillow form

2) get thicker thread to sew stuffing opening shut

3) figure out a way to cut the gold cording without it splaying (as in upper right corner in pic)

I like the way the opaque gold ribbon looks that will hold the rings...

Will post the final pillow soon!