Bed pillow shams

Well, I finished the shams! The first one was easy, everything went as planned, but for some reason, I messed up a couple of times with measuring and sewing on the second one, so that was somewhat frustrating. I like how they look with the duvet cover. However, they are kind of plain, so I either need to add some material to the middle, or add some smaller throw pillows in a beige color or something.

The hard part about making these, is you want the sham to fit snugly around the pillow, but it's kind of hard to know for sure where to sew to make that happen. Plus the corners can be tricky to fill out. I bought some cheapo pillows because we're not going to sleep on them and the corners aren't full.

In case anyone is wondering, we're going to be painting our room next week, so I bought samples of paint and tried them out. So that's what the patch of paint behind the bed is. I'm going to paint the room the color on the left. I'm doing this tomorrow and I can't wait. It's going to look so nice. Much better than plain white walls.

Here's an up-close look of the sham.

I got the pattern online. Here is the link, should anyone be interested in making their own.

http://www.digsmagazine.com/lounge/lounge_pillowsham.htm