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Way back in 2002 I ordered a pillow kit from Arts and Crafts Period Textiles. If I wasn't able to have an Arts and Crafts bungalow complete with ridiculously expensive Stickley pieces and an inglenook, I was at least going to have a pillow. I didn't know how to embroider but a good friend of my mom's did, so after a spending a very informative afternoon with her, I was on my way. A few weeks before we moved from Salem to Pennsylvania, I was up late one night madly embroidering away so my pillow would be done in time for a lesson in blocking fabric (I also learned how to make a killer guacamole because my mom's friend also happens to be an amazing cook), and when I left her house that day, all I had left to do was let the fabric dry, buy a pillow form, and sew that baby together.

And for the next five years that's still all I had to do. Two weeks ago I bought a pillow form and a zipper. A week ago I realized that although I put a zipper in my cart the week before, it never actually made it onto my receipt or into my bag, so I went back and really did buy a zipper. This afternoon I sat down and put the thing together:

I'm really happy with the results.

I'm not going to tell you how after I put in the zipper I went ahead and sewed the rest of the square shut because, hey, there's a zipper there. It wasn't until I cut the thread that I realized it probably would have been a good idea to unzip the zipper before sewing the rest of the pillow square shut. After some finagling I managed to get it open, but I felt incredibly silly the whole time I was messing with it. But, again, I'm not going to tell you about that.