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Me and my descriptive factual names! This is the second of the One Yard Wonders projects that has been sucking all my time, along with the end of Rebecca’s school year.
Yes, secret pockets, in between each puffy pillow petal you can reach your hand into a pocket. My children love stashing things, don’t yours?
I did a bunch of sewing on the book sample for this today, and I like the number 12, it has lots of factors, and it just tastes yummy and solid in my brain, but, as I was gathering each and every one of these puffy petals and sewing 12 of *everything* I began to wonder why I hadn’t chosen to make a pillow with, say FOUR secret pockets instead of 12! But I love 12. I could have used 10, but 10 is kind of boring and one dimensional. I like 8, I could have done 8, 2 cubed has much more richness than 10, or 7, because it is a prime, and primes have their own nice flavor. But I chose 12. 12, rich like velvet, a solid number you can’t knock over, because it has a foot pointing in every direction, 2, 3, 4, 6.
Do you like 12?
7 Comments
Add Yours →i love 12. it’s the building block of the universe — they say it’s in base 12… is that possible? if it is it’s pretty cool! Love your pillow wow such a great idea to have all those hidden pockets!
Penelope loved the pillow, too bad I’d already planned to give it away to another little girl for her birthday.
This is a very cute and brilliant idea! My daughter would love it! We lost our house in the May 22nd tornado in Joplin and are rebuilding. This picture has given me some inspiration for my daughter’s room. I would love to make a stack of these pillows! Where can I ge the pattern? Please let me know! What a great project for her and I to do this summer while we get ready to move.
Thank you so much! By the way, I think 12 is great!
Hope you got the pattern I sent! 🙂 Thanks for being my beta tester.
I absolutely LOVE this!! My 4yo daughter has little toys that she is always stashing in various places. She will love this. I’m looking forward to making it for her. Do you have an idea of when it will be available? I’m going to mark it on my calendar 🙂
Oh, yes, please kick me in the pants! I have been absolutely useless this past month with all the meetings and work days for the new school year, two parent co-op schools worth of meetings and work days now… The pattern is pretty much done, I need to give it a last round of editing and then stop freaking out already and just put it up. How about I give myself a deadline of October 1st, and then if I blow it you can hate-mail me. 🙂 I think I need a deadline.
All right Christina, I stayed up too late, but my shiny pattern is live on Etsy, but if anyone buys it tonight they are going to have to wait, because I am going to SLEEP!
Secret Pockets Pillow PDF Sewing Pattern