Guest Post- Beautiful DIY Pillow

Hello!! This is Connie and I'm [really, really] thrilled to share this project with you all today from my little blog- Salvage Savvy.

I went shopping the other day to purchase a throw pillow. Since I have a really long to-do list of DIY projects, I really was just gonna "pay-the-man" and buy one. Until I saw the grey pillow shown below [I know, it's tiny... but it's the best picture I could find, sorry]: It's from Vera Wang's new collection @ Kohls, and it's just lovely... and the wrong color... and I had a solid green dupioni silk pillow that was exactly the right color. So just like that... another project fell out of heaven and onto my DIY list [plop.].
Here's what you need:
Pillow cover, pen, fabric (I chose one that was shiny on the front and dull on the back so I could get 2 tones), a spool of thread & needle, scissors, and a quarter [oh, and a good movie- you'll see why].

Here's what you do:
Trace quarter onto the fabric for a circle pattern, then fold the fabric back and forth like a fan, this allows you to get several circles from one cut.

Next, cut out your circle(s) (I got about five circles @ a time). Repeat this many, many times [thus the good movie... ].

Next, do the same thing using your spool of thread [I wanted 2 different sizes of circles]. Now you have a pile of circles.

Arrange them on your pillow cover to get an idea of how/where you want them [and to make sure you have enough].

Get your thread and start sewing them into place. I just tacked each circle down once or twice because I wanted them to be loose and flow-ey [and I don't like sewing all that much!]. I went from circle to circle until my thread ran out [then I'd knot it and start a new one] to save time- which means the back of my pillow looks like a spider's web [but no one will see that... unless you take a photo of it and post it on your blog].

And that's it! Once the front looked like I wanted I put my pillow back in and I was a happy gal! A brand new look for $0 dollars! I have so many more pillow ideas now... so just expect more of these in the future!!

Thanks Connie for sharing, its so pretty, and I JUST LOVE it. winks-jen