This week I completed the pillow case except I wasn’t happy with the way it turned out. I think it is too small so it stretches out and leaves fairly substantial gaps that leave the original pillow showing through.

So I took it apart and restarted to make it bigger. In the first attempt I made a chain of 20 as my base to build on. The second time I chained 30 and that worked much better. It took longer and I had to stop for a day because I ran out of yarn. In the end I used 3 balls of yarn to make this pillow.

This is the pillow about 3/4 of the way done I had to check the how the pillow would fit inside because I was really just guessing how many rows of stitches I would need.

As you can see it looks a lot tighter. After a little more work I was able to finish the pillow and I am very happy with how it turned out!

I enjoyed learning this new technique and I think I may continue with it. First I would like to finish a crochet pillow case that I have started but then I think I will use this finger knitting technique to make my mom a big cozy blanket of mother’s day! In my next post I will explain the crochet pillow case I am making and do some research on finger knit blankets.