Sew4Home "Strawberry Fields" pillow cover.

I was surfing around on the internet last night looking for a good sewing blog to follow when I stumbled upon sew4home.com. It seems really well maintained, with a variety of project ideas, tutorials, and sewing resources. I found lots of projects to put on my to-do list but couldn't resist the Strawberry Fields pillow cover! The tutorial was great and easy to follow, it was actually a very easy pillow cover to make considering how complicated it looks!

Here is the finished product:

My pillow was about 17.5" x 17.5" I was saving this pretty green (looking yellow in every picture for some reason,) fabric that I got from Walmart for something to make for myself, and this seemed perfect :). Honestly I didn't pay attention to what the tutorial said about the back of the pillow, I was really just following it to get the front done, (2 brown front pieces 5" x 17.5" and one green piece 9" x 17.5")

I went ahead and made the back of the pillow envelope style so that I could take it on and off for washing. I believe I had two back panels each 11" x 17.5" to ensure I would have a good amount of overlap, since my first ever envelope pillow cover barely met in the back and didn't look so great.

The only thing I would really consider changing about this design is that the brown lattice strips are only attached at the very edges which can make it kind of awkward to be anything but gentile with the pillow. I think it would be super cute with some matching buttons at each intersection or something to that effect, to keep the strips flat and taut against the pillow, but of course there is no where around here that sells that sort of thing. I suppose its something I could add later when I come across what I need.

I am planning on redoing the cover for the other pillow this evening in the same 2 fabrics but I might try a different look to contrast this one.