Decorative Pillows

This is one of the easiest projects that I have done, but it is also one of the longest that I have taken to finish.

This project started out as a blanket for my sister to take with her to college, but I didn’t finish it before she left (one of the squares still isn’t finished yet). Since I still wanted to use the four squares that I had already made my other sister suggested that I turn them into pillows. It took me a little while to get around to it, but I finally sewed the four completed squares together and made two small pillows for my sister and her fiancee to use in their home once they are married. I am planning on using the last two squares, one of which is still unfinished, to make either one more small pillow, with each square being a different color, or making two super small pillows out of each square, I still haven't decided yet but I will get to that eventually.

They were pretty easy to make since each square used an entire skein of Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Denim and Grey Marble and I used a size 11 needle. I created my own pattern and just did a simple knit 4, purl 4, rib stitch, though I don't remember how many stitches I cast on when I started making the squares, which ended up looking more like rectangles. When I first had the idea of making pillows to give to my sister as a present, I was originally going to get two pillows from with Joann Fabrics or Michael's, but then I held two squares against a pillow that we had that was about the size that I wanted to get and no one liked the way that it really looked. Then I remembered that I had a bag of stuffing sitting in the basement that I hadn't used for anything yet, so I used all of it to stuff both pillows and I like the way that they turned out. And my sister and her fiancee both liked them.