I used up all of the gray yarn working the 14 rounds on each of the four squares that I had knit - but no real yarn chicken worries. Working the I-cord, 3-needle bind-off on the second cushion didn’t take long at all. Getting the zippers in was a bit fiddly. I put the pillow forms in, and pinned the zippers into place, then I pulled the pillow forms out and basted the zippers into place by hand. Then I back-stitched the zippers, also by hand. I tried using the sewing machine but didn’t get very far at all (thankfully) before realizing that was not going to work. Picking out what I had done was a pain, but I managed it without damaging anything.
Now that the cushions are done I can finish up the edging on the blanket. I ended up with 16-inch pillows - the pattern called for a single 18-inch pillow. I couldn’t find any instructions for the I-cord, 3-needle bind-off, so the way I ended up working it was: cast on the 3 stitches using a long-tail cast on, work one round (because I was starting at a corner), then start working the bind-off: knit two stitches of the I-cord, slip the third, knit two stitches together from the two pillow covers (the bind-off part), pass the slipped I-cord stitch over the new stitch. When I got to the side that was going to have the zipper I did the standard I-cord bind-off on one cushion cover, joined the beginning and ending of the I-cord using the tail from the cast-on, and used the still attached yarn to work a normal bind-off of on the other the cushion cover. They came out great - very cushy.
Pattern: Seascair Cushion Cover by Carol Feller
Yarn: Blasta
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