Recycled Purple Bolster Pillow, pt. 2

The original purple skirt I can't bear to just toss...

The velvety parts feel sooo soooffft.. and I just love the jacquard panels and pretty ribbon. It always made me feel pretty wearing this skirt with the matching vest. It has huge holes in it too, but it didn't contain enough fabric to be salvageable.

There's a major hole between the tiers and it's pretty fragile there, so sewing it together for a repair wouldn't have been an option.

Actually, there's another picture that came before this, and I'm not sure how it got deleted, but it did. All it showed was a first shot at wrapping the outer pillow around the eggcrate pillow core, just to give an idea that there was a little bit of a struggle involved.

I had to pull it together in big sections with safety pins, then gradually close up the gaps with yet more safety pins, until I could manage to sew the open edges together without constantly breaking the thread.

Sewing was a job that made my fingers REALLY sore. I constantly had to fight to pull those brown piped edges together evenly. If I hadn't joined the seams right there, though, it would have been ridiculously lumpy.

But now you can see that I have a neckroll pillow form, made from a couple of unpresentable flat pillows I've had for far too many years.

I must have had a previous life in the depression, because I just can't STAND to throw out something that I could squeeze a little usefulness out of.

It's just the right firmness to put behind my back and help me with my posture. It also comes in handy to put behind my neck when I'm reading or computing in bed.

Of course, that's just the inner form. More later when I finish the cover for it. I'm not looking forward to the hand sewing, but then again, I don't want to dig out my sewing machine for this job either. I just want my finished pillow.