I've recently partnered up with the amazing pottermouth in Round 2 of the I Want to Live in the Burrow Swap. She asked that I craft for her daughter, who has just gotten her own place. pottermouth had made her a
Ron Weasley Blanket, and mentioned she might like a throw pillow to go with it. I found some of the yarns she had used, so it would feel like Mrs. Weasley had made both from her yarn stash and started in on scrappy a granny square pillow.
In looking for pillow forms to fill it with, I found that nothing I needed (blank pillow forms, fabric, or zippers) was on sale at the craft store, and I was plum out of coupons, so I actually went to Tuesday Morning, and picked up some random pillows to cover. This one was a deep metallic plum purple, and I love how you get glimpses of it through the yarn, especially as Mrs. Weasley would be likely to reuse and refurbish in her crafting. I love how scrappy and kitchy it feels.
After finishing the granny square, I had so much yarn left, that I decided to start a Mandala Pillow too, mostly as an excuse to try out
this mandala pattern! The pattern itself came from the book Boho Crochet.
This pillow was a cute seafoam green, with some embroidery on one side. I stitched the mandala onto the front of the cover, so that it can be taken off and washed as needed.
For the final project in this series, I was inspired by all the rainbow flags all over my Facebook feed in June, and decided to make a rainbow pillow to round out the set.
I didn't follow a specific pillow pattern for this one, but I did use
attic24's tutorial on making granny stripe afghans. I thought I'd do the entire back in ivory, with ivory joining the two sides, but halfway through I realized I didn't have enough yarn, so I added a blue stripe across the back, and used more blue to join them. It wasn't what I planned, but I really like the juxtaposition of the rainbow against a sky blue and fluffy white.
