Simple DIY Outdoor Pillows for the Back Patio

Father’s Day has come and gone and so have my first 3 days at home with both boys without help!  I am still alive…so far…we’ll see how the week ends up…wish me luck!  Overall, I had 3 weeks of help and couldn’t have done it without my parents.  I mentioned before my parents took our oldest back to Iowa for a week after my mom spent a week here helping us.  They brought him back last Thursday night just in time for swimming lessons with Daddy.  My in-laws got into town on Friday night, so we all spent the weekend at our house grilling out and spending time together.  My husband was able to play golf on Saturday AND Sunday of Father’s Day weekend with my dad and his.  Whoever said I wasn’t a nice wife?  Golf was what he wanted, so golf is what he got!  That meant my mom, my mother-in-law and I had lots of QT with the babies and we were able to sneak in a pedicure as well!  All in all it was a great weekend… perfect weather too!

Speaking of good weather and spending time with family….we spent quite a bit of time outside sitting and lounging on the patio while Henry played and the guys grilled out.  That meant us girls were able to sit, relax and enjoy some wine 🙂  Like I said, it was a great weekend.

I shared our new outdoor curtains last week and today, I am going to share photos of our new sectional with my newly crafted pillows.  I picked out 4 different prints of outdoor fabric from fabric.com and have sewn 6 pillow covers so far.  I went with a bold stripe (I’m a sucker for black and white stripes), a black, tan & off-white geometric print, a black & green sea-life print and then a smaller scale. bright green pattern to off-set all of the black and give it a neonish pop of color!  I have quite a bit of fabric left, so might make a couple more or sew some for my mom’s outdoor patio furniture.  We shall see.

Here is the tutorial, by Four Generations One Roof I first used when getting back into sewing mode last year.  I wanted to make some pillows for my house and a friend asked me to make some for her as well.  This was a perfect step-by-step instruction guide for sewing pillows with a zipper closure – just what I wanted – Easy to remove & wash or switch out if I am ready for a new look 🙂

Here is how they turned out: 

And for a few personal pics…

Baby Simon lounging with the girls on the patio and big brother, Henry playing in the yard…<3

Another Father’s Day photo… Ted & the boys with my dad (left) and father-in-law (right)

And finally… Our little family of 4 🙂

If you need to get caught up on the rest of the Outdoor Oasis series, the posts are below: