I was never truly happy with the pillows I did the first time around. I ended up with too much brown in all of them, but the ones I loved the best ended up somehow being the exact color of the couch. You couldn’t even tell they were there sometimes. I needed a whole lot more contrast. Then a bunch of them got mangled after a particularly robust party, so I had the opportunity I needed.
This gray one is an exact copy of the pillow I made before, I just used gray fabric instead of brown. I actually ended up just stuffing the old pillow right inside of this one and zipping it up. I wanted something a little reminiscent of the stained glass windows of Frank Lloyd Wright, but with kind of a mod kick. They were super fun to make, which kind of surprised me. I’m not really an organic creator, I’m a planner. But to make these I had to cut out the colored squares, position them where I wanted them, and then measure the spaces between them as I went to fill in the background. It was a little fly by the seat of my pants and I loved it. It was like playing tetris.
The lighting in this house is still giving me trouble and I just could not get a decent shot of the blue pillow. I wanted to keep it solid but provide some texture, so I was looking around the internet for a tutorial on a pleated pillow. There were lots of great pillows that involved just pressed pleats, but with the wear and tear we put our pillows through, that would not have been successful for long. This was the tutorial I liked the best because all her pleats are sewn in and not going anywhere.
I used my own measurements because I wanted this pillow to be just a bit smaller than a pillow you’d use on your bed. Because we totally use these pillows to lay on while we’re watching TV, and I figured it would be better to just go with it than to fight the facts and let another set of pillows get bent into the shape we want them to be anyway.
I think I need one more set of pillows on this couch, and I can’t quite decide what color they should be. With how cool the blue and gray are together, I’m tempted to use the rose color, but I’ve already got a lot of that in there with the rug. The walls are green, so I don’t know about using more of that, but I’m worried that teal will be just too much. I’m going to have to think about this. Preferably with my feet up and my head on my new comfy pillows.
"a particularly robust party,"haha!