Hourglass Lumbar Pillow

This past month I decided to tackle one of my unfinished quilt projects. Unfortunately I have quite a few of those lying around. I started this Hourglass Lumbar Pillow quite a few months ago, but for some reason it never got finished. Maybe I was just waiting for inspiration to hit me.

One would think that pink and orange don’t go very well together. In fact I’m pretty sure that I won’t wear pink and orange at the same time. On the other hand, sometimes you’ll see a beautiful sunrise with pinks and oranges lighting up the sky! With this pillow, the two colors plus the addition of yellow work well together. The end result, a pretty and vibrant little pillow that will brighten up any spot.
 
I started out by cutting 1 ¼ inch wide strips in a variety of pinks, oranges and yellows I purchased from connectingthreads.com a while ago.

Then I arranged the colors to my liking and pieced four strips at a time together.

I used a triangle shape to cut triangles that would form a square when sewn together. Then I arranged the triangles with darker and lighter colors so they would form little “hourglasses”.

I needed six of these squares to form the top of the pillow.

Once I assembled the six squares, I machine quilted in between the seam lines with a variegated pink thread.

For the back of the pillow, I made a simple envelope style closure. This is always a fast and easy method, with the added bonus that you can still remove the insert in case you need to wash the cover.

Dimensions of pillow: approximately 18 x 12 inches (46 x 31cm)