Color Me Happy Fiber Arts Studio

FO Friday! 🍃

It feels like it’s been a minute since we have had a Color Me Happy finished object—but Linda finally finished her pillow based on the Adelphia purse pattern from ! Let’s just say the knitting got done a LOT faster than the sewing part of this project…😅

The short row leaves are so fun to knit that they really keep you going to get just one more done. Linda added 10 extra stitches to the cast on to make it more of a square, with the main yarn being our naturally dyed CMH Tweed DK in Pine and Natural. She also used two different green shades of fi*****ng weight mini skeins held together (a yellow green and a darker forest green, last pic) for some parts of the leaves to add some movement and shading.

Blocking is key to getting the pillow into a square shape prior to sewing. Linda backed the knitted fabric with a natural cotton and then sewed the front piece to the blue green twill fabric back.

And who knew after 20 years the buttonhole setting on her sewing machine still works!

This pillow was a housewarming gift for Linda’s son in San Francisco, so it was only fitting to get the buttons there at the lovely store there.

And if you’d like to give this pattern a try (highly recommended!) you can find our CMH DK Tweed in Fishers!