Remember this post?  Yeah, so I got the idea for the first recipient’s gift pretty much right away – and then life happened.  Finally, 3 months and 1 day later, it’s done!

(Apologies in advance for dark and crappy photography; there is some detail that doesn’t quite come through in the pictures)

I present to you, Andrei, your Idea Pillow!

You are definitely an “idea” guy, I think.  I hope you like it!  It’s waiting for you, for next time we see each other. :-)

I wish I had made the pillow a bit bigger, and the applique a bit smaller in relation to the pillow size.  My favorite part, though, is the zippered back:

which was incredibly tricky and clever, and brought to you by this post from house on hill road.