The new pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
The old cushion/pillow. Photo ©nini.tjader.2016
I have this old cushion/pillow from Ikea since a couple of years back. It is meant for outside use, summertime. The cushioncase is very colorful and totally wrong for the inside (though it has been used in the chaiselongue occassionally). Took it off to investigate the pillow inside (and to put it in the laundry).
The cushion without a cover. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
The pillow itself is OK. Quite big. Round. Soft.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
So I decided to use a jeans-blue cotton yarn I recently re-covered from a former sweater and to crochet a new cover for the pillow. It is easy chrocheting. You just go around and around in circles until you reach the desired size.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo:©nini.tjader.2016
You start on one side with a few stitches. Then go around and add stitches at intervals as needed to each row to keep the crocheting round and flat.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
When half of the pillowcase is crocheted, I left an opening wide enough to be able to insert the pillow into its cover and then continued with the same amount of stitches on the next row around.
This particular pillow has a straight edge of about 10 cms where I therefore stopped adding stitches for the number of rows needed, made the opening in the middle of the straight part, and then, when reaching the end of the straight edge, started reducing the number of stitches as needed to keep the other side of the pillowcase flat.
The opening of the pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
When the entire pillowcase was ready, I crocheted an additional row in the opening, plus one row with simple stitches to make the buttonholes. I then bought as many buttons as I had buttonholes in an appropriate size and sewed them to the other side of the opening of the pillowcase. Odd thing was that I actually had to buy buttons… I have a fairly large button-collection which I inherited from my mother and have kept adding to over the years. But this time there wasn’t any buttons in the right size in my collection.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
I then inserted the pillow into its new pillowcase.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
And closed it with the buttons.
Crocheted pillowcase. Photo:©nini.tjader.2016
Done. So where did I put it?
The new crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
I put it on top of the pouff in the livingroom. It might not be its definite place, but the size of the IKEA pillow happened to be of the same size as the top of the IKEA pouff.
Unfortunately the light conditions had gone from bad to worse before I could shoot this picture. It was, and still is very dark presently and hard to get decent light conditions to take pictures in natural light. That explains the very grainy pictures above and below.
The new crocheted pillowcase. Photo: ©ninit.tjader.2016
