Thursday, January 31, 2013

Diagonal Striped Crocheted Pillow


I just finished crocheting this diagonal pillow using the colors that I used in my Cath Kidston granny square afghan.




I just love the stripes.  I found photos of several of these pillows on Pinterest and followed the link to this blog:   The 8th Gem .    She made her pillows using moss stitch.  I really like the look of half double crochets, so that's what I used.  Here's how it looks on our bed.  Think I need more?



The pillow is made by crocheting a chain that is the same length as the diagonal of your pillow form.  You turn and crochet (I did hdcs) back down the chain, add a stitch in the end, and crochet down the other side of the chain.  You keep going around that center chain, creating a tube that fits diagonally around your pillow. It's quick, easy, and I love the look.

She doesn't show how she closed her pillow, so I just made this up.  I stitched about 5 inches in from each corner and then slip stitched along the opening adding loops so that I could button the pillow around the form.  This way I can change to another pillow cover easily.

 

I should be working on UFOs, but I started and finished this pillow pretty quickly.

 I hope you take some time to take a few stitches each day.


Thanks for stopping by! 

5 comments:

  1. What a great pillow! I really like how you used buttons to close the opening. It looks wonderful on your bed.

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  2. Precioso LuAnn el pequeño cojín...
    Espero que practiques tu español, the pillow is wonderful on yuor beautiful bed...
    Greetings!!!

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  3. HERMOSO COJÍN, ME QUEDO POR AQUÍ!

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