Right after I finished the rainbow stripe hot water bottle cover in 2024, I ordered another skein of that magic colorful yarn. I said in the bottle post that “I was leaving it out like another throw pillow” so I thought, “Why not just make a real throw pillow?” I did math for the cast on to get a 19-inch wide piece and then just kept knitting until it was 19 inches tall.
That knitting took, uh, two years…but that slowness worked out because those stripes look great in my new office! 
I blocked the knit square, lined it in scrap cotton, then treated that like one piece and sewed in a zipper. The backing of the pillow is an Anna Maria Horner reprint (I used the original in my first quilt back in 2009).
This whole room is just a color circus and I love it. The giant pinboard on the other wall has a few postcards I put up in my locker in high school (!) on it and MOAR color from prints and posters. 
It’s kind of fun to have a room that’s just for me and not visitors or guests or Doc. You might be thinking, “Karen, you’ve decorated the entire HOUSE for you,” and you wouldn’t be technically wrong when I did the other rooms, I tried to keep visitors or guests or Doc in mind and think of what they’d like. This office is just what I like and that’s rainbows and Legos and the lamp from my childhood bedroom and postcards like this: 
