Hey Y'all,

With farmhouse vintage being all the rage these day, I feel like I am FINALLY in style and on trend.  I have never been the modern-concrete-form-follows-function type of decorator.  I have more of the rusty-crusty-broken-down-you-might-get-tetnus-if-you-hold-it-the-wrong-way kind of look going on at my house.

So you can see why I was thrilled beyond words with my recent purchase of some vintage grainsacks. 

My friend Shea and I bought a few (okay 10) grainsacks when we went to Alabama recently.  We had the fabulous idea to turn them into pillows.  They were the perfect size to cut in half and stuff with a regular bed pillow. We were so excited that every bed in America (okay, just our homes) could have a set of grainsack pillows!

And then we washed them...

In our defense, they still had grain in them along with hay and I'm sure some other barnyard items.  So yeah, we washed them. You would have as well.

But with cleanliness comes shrinkage. Boo hiss.

Now, instead of these grainsacks being a normal width, they were several inches too small.

That's when we had to give up the idea of running to the store for some pillow inserts.  I mean, you can't find a 9x27 just anywhere.  Amiright?

PillowCubes was my instant reaction.  You can shop by size or even order a custom size.  We were able to find an insert for every single grainsack pillow.  No matter the size. Woohoo!

Need an 6x26, no problem.

13x17, yep.

42x53, uh huh.

We were able to cut the grainsacks into different shapes and sizes.  We have some that are rectangular, some are square. Some are tiny and a few are just the full size grainsack.

Shea and I got creative with the sizes.

There was no grainsack that PillowCubes couldn't fill.

So we stuffed and fluffed and stuffed some more.  Then we got the brilliant idea

to cover some of the inserts with ticking.  This lets the little bit of insert that is peeking out seem a bit more vintage.  Don't you think?

Then we added grommets to some, flowers to others, twine when appropriate and simple blanket stitching to a few.

Oh glory! We were having fun and the grainsack fuzz was a-flyin'.

I'm pretty sure that Shea and I will be going back to Alabama for a few more grainsacks this summer.  And when we do, we will throw caution to the wind by washing AND drying our next batch! Living on the edge I tell ya.