While going through all my belongings (thank you Marie Kondo! My house is making me so happy and less stressed.), I have found several tenugui, Japanese hand towels. I have collected these while traveling around Japan. Each is printed with beautiful designs (at least the ones I buy are beautiful). I bought them because they made me happy and being in a box was not bringing the joy. So I needed to do something to put them on display.
Many people use their tenugui as hand towels, scarfs, or put them on display in their houses. While I could have purchased frames for them and stuck them on the wall, I decided that I would prefer to make pillows with the long pieces of fabric instead.
I folded the first tenugui in thirds to make a square pillow. I happened to have a pillow form laying around, a guest left it at some point this past year and didn't want it back. I put this pillow in our guest room on my glider. Now every time I walk past the open door, I smile, appreciating the pillow.
The second pillow, I used two tenugui and left them as rectangles. This way I could display the pillow on my couch with whichever design strikes my fancy that particular day. I purchased several bags of filling at Daiso, the ¥100 shop. My son is now hauling it all over the place. I am pretty sure he likes it as much as I do.
Both took me less than a half hour to complete and now I get to see these beautiful Japanese cloths all the time. My husband suggested I start sewing all my furoshiki into pillows, but I prefer to use those as bags!
In 2017 my family headed to Tokyo. My husband had a new job and my son and I came along for the ride. This move was my second move to Japan - the first was for a year in 2002. At that time I was a single, recent college graduate. Moving abroad as a family was a whole different ball of wax. As I live this crazy life in Japan, I track our adventures and my observations, creating an unofficial guidebook to the city.
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