Decorative Pillow Using Paella Rice Bags

I have a long term project for this year (or hopefully just this winter/spring) to redo our master bedroom so that it doesn’t look quite so much like a college apartment. I’ve been contemplating the look I’m after for quite awhile now, but the physical transformation has been on the back burner. The color scheme will be mainly greys, white and black. This is one of the small projects for the bedroom – a decorative pillow for the bed. Spain is near and dear to us, so this decorative pillow is a little tongue in cheek reference to that beautiful country:

I used paella rice bags to embellish the front of the pillow (the back of the pillow has the paella recipe off the back of the rice bag as well) and used a blanket stitch on the edges of the pillow to echo the stitched detailing of the bags. The cover fabric is leftover yardage from our living room curtains, and the pillow inside is re-purposed from a throw pillow we’d stopped using when we got rid of our couch. I generally have no trouble finding Matiz Paella Rice – look in the rice aisle of any moderately well-stocked grocery.

Here’s a detail of the rice bag: