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My
boy has never quite understood my pillow obsession. Why bury a bed under
an excess of pillows whose only purpose, as far as he’s concerned,
seems to be to get in the way when you’re trying to climb under the
covers at the end of the day? It’s
not that he doesn’t get the comfort thing; it’s just that the line
between “enough-to-be-comfy” and “too damn many to ever use”
lies a little closer to “a couple” in his mind, and “until I get
tired of making them” in mine. So it was with some surprise when,
after our honeymoon in Morocco, he started bugging me about wanting one
of “those Morocco pillows.” “What
Morocco pillows?” I asked, since my only recollection of Moroccan
pillows was that they’d had a tendency to be upholstered in
outrageously sumptuous fabrics that, besides being beyond my usual
cheapskate’s craft budget, just didn’t quite go with the 60s
space-age orb lamps and vaguely mid-century modern/thrift-store kitsch
look that generally defines our décor. “You know,
those skinny cylinder-shaped ones …” he insisted.
So, I sat
down one afternoon and tried to figure out the easiest way to make a
bolster pillow cover. I
didn’t want to fuss with zippers, nor did I relish wrestling with
pesky circles or curved seams. I wanted fast, I wanted easy; I wanted
something that wasn’t going to leave me cursing at my sewing machine
in frustration. Which is how I came up with this pattern, which makes a
simple rectangular/cylindrical cover with openings on either side that
can be cinched shut with drawstrings. what
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Ah,
bolster pillows. Now, bolster pillows have never featured high on my
list of “things I MUST have in my abode” – they’ve always seemed
more decorative to me than actually useful, and perhaps more
importantly, I’m enough of a sewing hack that the idea of covering
anything more complicated than a simple rectangle has always seemed,
well, just a tad beyond my very meager abilities. But, marriage, after
all, is about compromise, and I figure if he can indulge my needs for a
gazillion tiny throw pillows strewn about the bed, I can allow him a
bolster pillow or two.