Sew It Then Throw It

Last month I replaced the duvet cover and pillow shams in my bedroom.  The finished product looked nice, but I knew I wanted some throw pillow to accent it.

I started hunting in the thrift shops for decorative pillows to recover.  It took me a couple of weeks to find what I was looking for, but I finally hit the jackpot; two perfectly new pillow forms.  My find was a win all around.  Since they were just forms with no "pretty" cover they cost less, and because the form was covered with a cheap poly/cotton material, I didn't have to worry about any background colors bleeding though.

I made my covers from part of a vintage white cotton sheet I found last time I cleaned out the linen closet.  The old material was sturdy, and soft from years of use.  Since I'd cut the original king-sized cover down to fit my full-sized bed there were scraps of leftover material, which I used to cut strips.  I folded in the raw edges and formed the finished strips into squares, which I sewed onto the pillows like a frame.

I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.

Jackson had to get in on the action