Olive You Pillow

"Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit." -Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

One of my favorite parts of Gone Girl is that when they meet they start off by joking over making a sandwich with "just one olive".  It reminded me of the olive theory on How I Met Your Mother.  I saw a pillow with an olive on it a while ago and decided to try making one for myself.

Materials:

• Pillow Form
• Off White Material
• Green Felt
• Red Felt
• Sewing Machine
• Scissors
• Brown Fabric Paint

Directions:

1. Cut out 2 pieces of material around pillow with enough extra for a 1/4 seam.  
2. Cut an oval shape out of green felt.
3. Cut a small heart out of red felt.
4. Sew the read heart onto the green oval.
5. Sew the green oval onto one of the white material pieces.
6. Sew the two sides of the pillow cover together, leaving room to fit in the pillow.  Make sure to sew them together with the olive facing the inside.
7. Flip inside out, and put pillow inside the cover.
8. Sew the open ends together.
9. Write "Olive You" on the pillow.

The pillow represents the good parts of Amy and Nick's marriage, and how somethings a little thing, like an olive, can bring us together.