oh my gosh, it is so beautiful! you MUST go ahead and make the pillows. your gut reaction is right on. but i’m not sure you should run it by AC first…..

Hmmm…maybe if you are worried about going all out, you could just use a strip of this fabric on a solid color to make a pillow? Perhaps a 4″ strip, offset to one of the sides or something. I think that would look great! Or like you said, a simple bolster (those are the tube-like pillows, right?). Good luck!

I really like it so I say yes.

I think it would be really cheery! And at $9 per yard you won’t feel guilty about changing them when you get bored…

I actually feel like this would be okay, because the pattern on your couch is so small (or at least it looks small in the pictures) that it’s not like you’d be combining two loud patterns that might clash.

I think it’s fabulous. It may be a little busy if you were using it in a busy room, but in a simple environment, and with the shape of your couch, it would totally work. I love it!

i think its good, its definitely contrasting enought and it bridges the christmas-spring transition very well….its fun, maybe a cat shaped pillow in that fabric to match lil cutie.

i think it would work! even though your couch has a pattern it is small enough that it really becomes a solid from far away (left pic). i think the chosen pillow fabric would accent the green in the couch quite well. :)

I actually think the pattern would work well with your couch! If you thought the pattern might be too much, you could always just do the pattern on one side of the pillow, or even just do a square of it on the front of the pillow and then solid color for the rest.

I say go for it! Love the idea of a bolster.

Ick. If that hot pink were white, I’d say go for it.

Maybe you could use it as one side of the pillow and place a solid on the reverse. Or cut out those red blossoms and applique them. Cheers

i think it would look great. i love pink and green. go for it!

It depends on how big the pattern is. If the flowers on your fabric are big (like zoom in) then it might work. When I try to imagine the pillows on the sofa, the pink bothers me a little.
In my opinion, a pattern with warm colors will work much better.

But then again, the fabric is beautiful and the sofa as well, so there is no reason they won’t work together.

Hope I helped a little

i think it’s amazing. i mean—amazing in a busy way but outstanding nonetheless. but just one or two simple pillows (bolster good idea) so it doesn’t look grandma-gone-crazed. go with your wild instinct—i love it!

I think it would look fabulous. The pattern on your couch looks fairly subtle- I think the colours and kinetic feeling of the kaffe fassett fabric would really complement the style and fabric of the couch. Go fo it!

okay, so alone, i don’t love the floral fabric. but, combined with the hable construction (?) fabric on the couch, i think it’s fabulous! i can’t tell from the picture, but i’d say as long as the greens worked well together, it would give your couch a great jolt of interest. and i love the idea of a bolster. although it’s hard to imagine a bolster coming in handy while curled up watching a movie.

I say go for it! I’m seeing pink all over the place and love it - this seems like a great way to add in pink. The pattern in the couch is subtle and I bet the bolder pattern throw pillows or bolsters will look great. $8.95/yd is an awesome price for a beautiful print!

I think it would actually work. You are right that the fabric is busy, but your couch is simple in form and textile. The pillows would make a nice pop. The greens don’t match they but would go together.

I love the fabric! Although I like you and tend to go a bit overboard with patterns and color…so maybe you shouldn’t take my advice.

Not related to your question (but I cannot help myself!) I absolutely love your hable construction couch - beautiful! Would you be willing to tell me ~ roughly ~how much it cost to reappholster? I love all their patterns and didn’t even realize one could by them by the yard!

I love the pattern, but I just am not sure it will go with your sofa. What do you think about the same pattern in the “pink” instead of the red? Its not quite as bright, but the pattern is great and it looks like those colors may be a little better against the green. But, maybe that is too boring or not enough “pop” for you. I don’t think I would go for this though, but its not too expensive so you could get it and maybe decide to use it for something else if it doesn’t work.

i would go for it - especially in a bolster because the shape of that will help bring it down a notch. i think. and it’s just one, right? sounds like a fun project….

Go for it! Such a fun pattern… defnitely the right amount of contrast with the couch.

I think it would look fabulous! Love the bright flowers with the hable fabric.

It works. I would go with a long, narrow bolster. Pillows are there for the color, and you can change it whenever you want to, so why not?

Try pairing the pattern with a solid by using a 1/4 yard strip of the patterned fabric as an accent stripe or square.

it will totally work!

oh make pillow forms… and then make slip covers. I like the idea of it as a stripe on a solid .. But what I really like is the idea of changing the look of the couch on a whim with easily stored pillow covers.. In fact I am going to take my own advise on this one.

I got two medium pillows out of a yard and a half of fabric and had some left over, but it depends on the width of the fabric and size of the pillows. Just measure the pillows you want to make, figure out how big a piece you’d need to cover front and back with an inch on each side for seams. And I love the fabric. If it’s a big print I think it will look lovely.

i say, do it. no offense intended at all, but whenever you put up pictures of your home i feel it’s all way too minimal and white. you have a lovely home, i’m just saying it could use more pizzazz! that fabric would be a wonderful start and wouldn’t clash with the couch at all.

The contrasting piping on the bolster is a good idea. I’m not naturally drawn to the fabric, but I think it will work with your style (what I’ve deduced from the pics of your place I’ve seen on the site).

I love theses together and think it will add warmth, coziness, and boho chic to the sofa.

I like it! And, as the designer who heklped me pick my couch said, “they’re only throw pillows…when you’re sick of them, change them!”

Grace, please send pics of the finished “product” on sofa…

I think it would be adorable! Can’t wait to see it. I would go for the bolster style pillows, BTW.

love it! i think it will look great with the couch.

i actually just ordered that fabric 3 days ago to make curtains for my bedroom. the walls are a sort of grass green and the bedspread has red and coral and grey in it. i haven’t gotten the fabric yet, but i have been in love with it for a while now! make a bolster, i think it would look great with that fabric.

I like the fabric! As long as the patterns are different sizes, you’ll be fine. As far as production goes, you should ask Lena who her seamstress is. I remember reading in an interview that the woman downstairs from her is the one who does her pillows.

I love your sofa in the hable print and think anything that busy might detract from it but like the others said at 9 dollars a yard - why not?

Am I the only one who thinks the fabric is a bit too much for the couch? I’m not a fan of that pink with the green of the couch … Definitely think your pillows *should* have some amazing patterns, but maybe not with this fabric?

glad to see you are going for it! a punch of color is a wonderful thing. and if it feels like to much, you can always slipcover it in spring :)

i think it’d be fun- especially if you mixed a couple of solid or calmer patterned pillows in there. if it doesn’t work out, you can always make a skirt!

I thin it would be cool if you made pillows with this fabric on one side, and a different pattern on the other side… 4 different fabrics total, for 3 pillows…. all 3 would have the fassett on the back, and you could alternate which fabrics you have facing out.

I always love pink and green together, and I think the patterns will work because the couch pattern is tighter and the pillow fabric is broader. Go for it :)

I’m a big fan of pink and green right now (I just bought a green and white crib set to go in a pink room and it looks fab)- so I think it will work nicely. It’s going to be kind of crazy-like a quilt, but as has been stated in many previous comments- they are only throw pillows, throw being the key word here (as in throw them out when your tired of them). Besides, you need to change your space according to your attitude, and if your heart says yes, well you only live once.

i guess i imagine a pillow shape/layout such as these http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8845864 or http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1278&f=26052
with the fabric paired with another fabric(s). i would say white so as not to be too heavy. it makes me think of a japanese obi. a white pillow with a wide floral sash perhaps?

I love the fabric! Just go ahead and do the pillows. It will look great!!!!

YES! do it. I love it.

I agree that you should have forms made and slipcovers. Then you can change them out when you want to. Then the choices are limitless!

Sometimes I love a bright cheery color in my home and then other times I want neutral earth colors. Moods change.

Thanks, Grace. I’m in Manhattan so I may just give your upholstery place a call…that actually doesn’t seem terribly expensive…it looks like a big couch!

I’m glad you’re going with the pillows, my best friend always says, “go big or go home”.

Hi Grace, You will need 1.5 yards for a 2 20″ square pillows. Add 1 yard for welting. Or try a boxed pillow with out welting for a really clean, less standard look.
http://argueinteriors.blogspot.com/2007/12/dons-boxed-pillows.html
These are is 9″x20″x2″ and would need 1.5 yards for 2. The sewing is harder for those though.
I highly recommend using down pillow inserts. They feel better, look better, last better and are natural. Garnet Hill has a nice selection, including the rectangle for the boxed pillow.
Have fun! Pillows are easy to recover.
A beautiful new fabric can still make me so happy…

kaffe fassett is always right. :)
love it.

yay! i’m glad you’re doing it grace. it’s just beautiful! and I think a long bolster would be best…sort of uniting it. individual pillows would break up the clean lines.

I would love it as a bolster!

Bit late on this one, but I’m sure your natural instinct is right and it will look stunning, I just love that couch.

I’m late i know, but I think the two colors do complement each other nicely, so i think the flowers on the pillow would make a nice contract to geometric pattern on the couch. And i know I’m playing devils advocate here, but maybe fabric the opposite scheme with maybe mostly close to or/complementary green to your couch with splashes of pink/red instead?

Absolutely you should make some pillows out of that - and make some napkins for your dining room while you’re at it. That fabric would be great with your red dining room chairs. (Creepy that I know that but I was just looking through your sneek peaks!)

Yes, this works. I’d only do two pillows in this fabric and then I’d add two other pillows to put behind it in a more neutral hue.

gorgeous. you simply must use this fabric and this fabric alone.

do it, girl. life’s too short not to be in love with green and pink together :)

I love that pattern, and have it in 2 other colorways (the blue/green/brown and oranges/yellows)! It’s a pleasing pattern to look at; I predict you’ll be happy to see it on your sofa!

That fabric will look wonderful as pillows. You should make either one long pillow (like a short rectangular echo of the couch back but almost the length of the cushions) or two bolsters to tuck in each end. Adorable cat, btw.

That fabric is superb! Pink and red are great together, and that’s a great, unusual green. I like Fassett’s colour sense. It would be better perhaps if the green were slightly more dominant, so that you could mostly have a tone-on-tone effect on the sofa with just a little warm accent for contrast, but this will be a punch of colour, but you can always add one throw pillow in a third colour, maybe another green, to tie it all together, because three seems to be the magic number. We make oblong sofa pillows in a 14″x23″ dimension, and they look great - pretty modern. 18 or 20″ squares would be great too (I’d double all these so that you make sure you have the same fabric front and back - it looks better). For bolsters the dimension would be the width (or depth) of your sofa cushions x a circumference of 24″ - 26″ depending. A bit slimmer might look more modern.

I love that fabric — can’t wait to see the results. xo

Making a throw pillow out of the cat would be wrong. Out of that gorgeous fabric? Fantastic! Do it. It compliments your hip style and will boost the mood of the room.

DO IT!!!! I just made a bag out of this fabric and I have gotten nothing but complements. It’s awesome and would look great with the couch.

Hmmm. Quite honestly I wouldn’t put those two together. It is a bit much. Since your sofa is green dots, why not have pillows with a large dot (or circle) on them? It would be cute in other shades of green, or even other cool colors. Pattern on pattern can be fun, but since your sofa is busy already (in a simple way), I wouldn’t overdo it - unless the fabric you like is in another colorway.

I think it would be FANtastic. Color is what makes the world exciting!

I think it’s awesome! you should definitely make a pillow or two for your couch! I love the punchy colors. It’s refreshing.