I went shopping the other day to purchase a throw pillow. Since I have a really long to-do list of DIY projects, I really was just gonna “pay-the-man” and buy one. Until I saw the grey pillow shown below [I know, it’s tiny… but it’s the best picture I could find, sorry]: It’s from Vera Wang’s new collection @ Kohls, and it’s just lovely… and the wrong color… and I had a solid green dupioni silk pillow that was exactly the right color. So just like that… another project fell out of heaven and onto my DIY list [plop.].
Here’s what you need:
Pillow cover, pen, fabric (I chose one that was shiny on the front and dull on the back so I could get 2 tones), a spool of thread & needle, scissors, and a quarter [oh, and a good movie- you’ll see why].

Here’s what you do:
Trace quarter onto the fabric for a circle pattern, then fold the fabric back and forth like a fan, this allows you to get several circles from one cut.

Next, cut out your circle(s) (I got about five circles @ a time). Repeat this many, many times [thus the good movie… ].

Next, do the same thing using your spool of thread [I wanted 2 different sizes of circles]. Now you have a pile of circles.