I wove a lot of squares during the past couple of weeks. Now to get them put together into various projects. Here’s the first one finished—a square round pillow. Or shall I call it a pinwheel pillow? Origami pillow? I first made this pillow shape for Michael’s Arts & Crafts Magazine, May/June 1997 . It was made of recycled pants legs and is still a great little project for re-using jeans or trousers. But anything with rectangular lines is fair game for Weave-It, right? It’s made of four same-size rectangles, each of which is twice as long as it is wide. Seam as a pinwheel, then seam all adjacent edges. It really helps to understand this when you make a paper model first. (Crafty Bits has posted a pincushion in the same shape, but starting with two squares instead of four rectangles.)

In retrospect, it would have been more effective to have slightly different colors for the alternate panels. Next time. The pillow will still be nice to have when I crash on the couch. Stitch patterns are Diagonal Stripes and Mirrored Diagonal Stripes, all turned to the reverse side. The “right” side is more subtle than what you see here.

Diagonal Stripes

Mirrored Diagonal Stripes