DIY Colorpath Pillow

I have an abundance of scrap fabric that has been taking up space and I love any project that can help me get rid of it (and make something pretty too!) so I turned to the trusty internet to find a good rainy day project.

Jessica at Sew Homegrown gave me the inspiration to make knockoff this pillow (she wrote a great tutorial too). Here's hers.

Here's my finished product

Mine isn't as ruffly as hers looks but I'm loving the texture and color. 

I chose my fabrics based on, you guessed it, my inspiration pillow. I love this thing, it really is helping me make design decisions. I picked through my scraps and pulled out the ones that looked good with the pillow.

Once I had them arranged my my liking I used my round cookie cutter to trace 2" circles. 

This was seriously tedious and took about 2 episodes of NCIS to cut all 60. After they were cut out I stacked them together and lay them out in two lines on my pillow fabric. 

I scooched then around and pinned them down where I thought they looked good being careful to make sure the circles were all slightly uneven so they would show later.  I attached them by simply bar tacking them down with my sewing machine. It took probably 1/3 of the time to actually make the pillow as it did cutting all the circles. (I made my pillow using the envelope method and the fabric is a heavy white linen).

See how well it complements my inspiration pillow. One thing I would recommend if you make this pillow is to draw straight lines where you plan to put your scraps so that they are straight. Mine are a little crooked. 

Pretty!

Cheers!

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***Norman had to put his two cents in, check out his reaction to my hard work at the Book of Norman.