Fall Pinterest Challenge: Envelope Pillows

It's time for another Pinterest Challenge!  This time I am linking up with Sherry, Katie, Carmel, and Sarah.

I've seen so many cute pillows popping up all over blog land and on Pinterest, so I thought I would whip some up for a Christmas gift.  Dad, if you are reading this, close your eyes!

Here is my inspiration:

                                                                          Source: maillardvillemanor.com via Liz on Pinterest

This seriously has to be one of the easiest sewing projects that I have tackled.  You only have to sew four straight lines!

We took a trip to Ikea last week and one of the new fabrics they have reminded me of some coasters I picked up from a local greenhouse in Michigan.

This super cute fall fabric is from Ikea and runs for $6.99 a yard.  One yard will be more than enough fabric to cover two pillows.

Margareta Fabric

First, cut your fabric to size.  My pillow inserts were 16", so I cut my fabric to a 16" x 36" rectangle.  

Then mark your fabric for your hem and fold lines.  Mark 1/2" from each end so that when you fold your fabric over you have a 1/4" hem line.  Also mark your fabric 10" in on your longest sides so you know where to fold before you sew the sides of your pillow.

Next, hem the two short sides.

Then iron your pillow on your fold lines.

Once you finished ironing, sew down each of the sides with 1/2" seam allowance.  Fold your pillow right side out, and stuff with your insert.

The result is a great looking pillow that was super easy and required no buttons or zippers!

This is what the back of the pillow looks like.  There is about a two inch overlap of fabric so that you cannot see any of the pillow insert.

Hopefully my dad will like them, and they will add a nice touch of the outdoors to his office space!

Crafts

Where have the past few weeks gone?  I can't believe it's already the middle of November!  These past few weeks have been really busy, but seem to finally be calming down.

I know I mentioned this last time, but I am totally obsessed with Pinterest.  I keep finding awesome recipes to try (that are super easy too!).  And lots and lots and lots and lots of craft ideas.

My super amazing best friend is having a baby next month!  So I decided I would attempt to make something for her new little guy.  I did three "practice" coasters, and then I decided to make a baby blanket.  Once the blanket was done I was feeling adventurous, so I made two pairs of mittens and a hat too.  I think they turned out awesome.  Here are some pictures:

I used single crochet for everything.  I used this tutorial for the mittens, though when I made the first pair they seemed a little small (but I didn't have any baby hands to test them on), so I made a second pair with an extra 5 stitches around.  I used this tutorial for the hat, but obviously mine was solid colored.  To make the "magic circle" to start the hat I used this website.

Closer view of the blanket.

Top view of the hat.

My "baby" to test the sizes on.

 

Charlie was enjoying the sun that day!

Woah!

Time sure has been flying lately!  I can't believe it's already November 6!

Lately I have been wasting spending lots of time on Pinterest.  Which is both good and bad.  On the plus side, I've found lots of cute crafts and recipe ideas (which I have actually been making!).  On the minus side, I've been spending LOTS of time searching and searching and searching and finding so many cute things I will never be able to make them all!  Oh well, it's still fun.

Last week was filled with doctor appointments.  Mostly for normal things.  It just stinks that it takes over a half hour to get to the doctor, so a huge chunk of your morning is gone by the time you are back home.

I have discovered a new grocery store (Hannaford) which is amazing!  I love it so much more than the other store I was going to.  They even have Chobani for one dollar regular price!  I'm in love :)

I'm making Mark a scarf.  Let's see how long this takes me.  I've tried knitting, but so far have been very unsuccessful.  I get how to do it, but the last stitch is always super loose because I don't think I hold the needles close enough together.

Right now I'm watching the Patriots - Giants game.  I'm very entertained by how poorly Tom Brady is performing.  I find it funny, but I should probably not mention it to any of the boys because most of them are huge Patriots fans.

This post is super super random.  Oh well.