A scrap of fabric

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!