Sew Nice!**

Remember those curtains and rods I helped my dad hang a few weeks ago? Some of them were some new drapes my mom got for the family room. They look really great in the room, but now the throw pillows on the couch don't match! I hate to see the current pillows go to waste, so I decided to make new covers for them.

I decided that I wanted to make two pairs of pillows—one pair in the same fabric as the drapes and another pair in an accent color. First I had to find another drape. Since these were on super-duper-clearance, it was especially difficult to get my hands on one. As it happens, one was finally located about 200 miles from my house and I made arrangements to have it shipped to me.

I found the red fabric in a remnant bin at the fabric store. It's a nice micro-suede.

See the beige cross pattern between the circles? I repeated that pattern in my red pillows. I cut the red square into fourths, stitched it back together, and added a few more rows of stitches. 

To top them all off, I finished one of the edges of each pillow with a zipper so that inserts could be easily popped in or taken out as needed. I think they turned out pretty good! I'm looking forward to giving them to my mom for Christmas. Think she'll like them?

**UPDATE! Mom liked her pillows! Here's a shot of them with the couch!