The Snugly Stripes Pillow: free crochet pattern |Keeping it Real

Hello, and welcome. Today I'm sharing here a very easy crochet pattern to create a large, snugly pillow, perfect for the cold season ahead.

It's a very easy pattern, great for beginners.

Materials:

velvet yarn or a similar yarn. I used Hobbii Baby Snuggle Solid (read my review of this yarn here) in white and powder pink colors. I had these leftover from other projects, but for this pillow you need one white ball and about three powder pink balls of this yarn
a 6 mm crochet hook
a store bought basic pillow (or the materials to make one) sized about 40 x 65 cm to place inside the pillow cover you will be crocheting

Stitches used: chain, back loop half double crochet (US crochet terms), single crochet.

Construction: the pillow is crocheted into two separate pieces (the front and the back), which you will then join together. The pillow front has white stripes alternating with the pink. The pillow back is done entirely with the pink yarn.

The finished pillow, made with the yarn above, is sized approximately 40 x 65 cm. Please note that different yarns may yield different finished sizes and you may need to adjust the number of initial chains and/or rows accordingly.

Pattern:

Pillow front:

Row 1: Start with the pink yarn. Chain 42. Start on the second chain from hook and add one half double crochet on each chain until the end of the row (40 stitches in total).

Row 2: chain two (doesn't count as a stitch), add one back loop half double crochet on the same space and over each stitch from the previous row (always 40 stitches).

Rows 3 to 24: repeat row 2, always with the pink yarn.

Rows 25 to 36: repeat row 2, but now with the white yarn

Rows 37 and 38: same as row 2 but back to the pink yarn

Rows 39 and 40: same as row 2 but with the white yarn

Rows 41 and 42: same as row 2 but with the pink yarn

Rows 43 and 44: same as row 2 but with the white yarn

Rows 45 and 46: same as row 2 but with the pink yarn

Cut the yarn and weave in the ends.

Pillow back:

Row 1: Start with the pink yarn. Chain 42. Start on the second chain from hook and add one half double crochet on each chain until the end of the row (40 stitches in total).

Row 2: chain two (doesn't count as a stitch), add one back loop half double crochet on the same space and over each stitch from the previous row (always 40 stitches).

Rows 3 to 46: repeat row 2.

Once you finish the pillow back, don't cut your yarn.

Instead, place both pillow pieces one on top of the other, wrong sides together, and start joining them with a single crochet all around (3 single crochets in each corner).

Leave one of the sides open and place the store bought pillow or pillow filling inside.

Then add single crochets until both pieces of the pillow are fully joined together (this is the trickiest part of the whole process, since it's harder to crochet the pillow edges together with the filling already in place).