Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Summer Garden Pillow


It's done and I am so in love with how it came out!

 This surprisingly is my first pillow ever and I always figured them as quick projects (especially after doing a whole afghan), but as I crocheted the border all I kept saying was "why are pillows so big?!". Well it ended up that my plan to make a 16" pillow turned into a 20" pillow! If I had left off the colorful border it would have been around 16", but I think that the border makes the whole thing.


This pillow was made completely out of leftovers from my Cath Kidston inspired blanket. I used attic24's summer garden square pattern, then added 6 rows of double crochet in white (2dc, ch2, 2dc in each corner). Then outlined that with 5 more rows of double crochet in alternating colors. To make this into a pillow and not just a very large square I hand sewed it onto the front of a plain white envelope style pillow cover.


















I'm deciding on what my next pillow project should be as I dream of a couch full of handmade cushions. Do you have a favorite pattern?

20 comments:

  1. I love it! So pretty, bet it makes you smile!
    I love Lucy's patterns, so easy to follow!
    Rachel x

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  2. Impressive indeed...great combination of colours
    you always find something lovely on Lucy's blog!

    Amanda :-)

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  3. What a lovely pillow, I love the colours you choose :)

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  4. That is absolutely, positively the cutest thing! Charming.
    Brenda

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  6. Beautiful! You've inspired me to make more cushions. Just the front though, I too am going to sew them to a ready made cushion cover. So easy! xxx

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  7. Beautiful.
    Love the bright colors.
    Hugs
    Trace

    www.grannytracescrapsandsquares.com

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  8. Hi Becky

    Cupcake Cutie here. Just to let you know you are one of the winners of the Babushka sampler pattern giveaway...CONGRATULATIONS!
    Let me know your email address and I will send the pattern ASAP.

    Kim
    cupcakecutieone@gmail.com

    P.S Love your Scandanavian stitching!

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  9. LOVE it!!! It's just pretty, happy & reminds me of spring!

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  10. Bright colors, Summer flowers. Very nice pillow!

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  11. Beautiful! Very Cath. I love the idea of couch full of yarny pillows, too--can't wait to see you make that happen. My fave pattern is the humble granny. She always comes through for me.

    Your blog is lovely! :)

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  12. It looks so pretty, I love it ...Janice

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  13. Beautiful! I'm just learning to crochet and was looking on Pinterest in amazement at what I hope I could do one day and followed a link to your blog. Simply wonderful, looking forward to following your adventures. RM x

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  14. Absolutely beautiful! Followed a link from Pinterest and it lead me here. So glad it did, your blog is fab! Looking forward to following your adventures as I am just learning to crochet RM x

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  15. What a brilliant idea. Love the way you have put the small granny square centre n done turned it into a big white square n then bordered it again..I m off todo something similar. Thanks for the inspiration!

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