At long last it’s done! My Eyeball Bolster Cushion is fully assembled, with zipper installed, and pulled up around the custom cushion form I built for it.

Obviously this isn’t the sofa for which it is destined. That’s a mid-century modern low-back piece, in black, resident in Younger Offspring’s apartment. But you can get the scale of it on my rather more traditional living room couch.

I’m very glad that I was not recorded during the shimmy dance required to get the thing into final configuration. But it’s done. I am especially happy that the modesty panels work so well in keeping everything flat and level. I don’t expect the cover to rotate around the inner bolster because the outer shape is so well corseted. The corners are crisp, and the I-Cord piping join around the two large face edges pops nicely.

To be fair, there were a couple of hiatus weeks on this piece, especially in the past month. I savaged my fingers hand stitching the zipper onto the short side flap, and had to wait for a bit of healing before I could finish. All told, I began this on Halloween 2022, and finished yesterday. That’s a week shy of five months to crochet all 128 motifs, join them into sides with slip stitch, hand stitch the cover onto the inner foam slab, hem the modesty panels and stitch them to the assembled sides, join the sides with knit I-Cord, install the zipper, and stuff the cushion inside the assembled cover.

Not the longest tenure project I’ve done so far, but certainly the longest duration crochet piece I’ve ever attempted.

Now on to other things, with a pair of mindless socks in between for decompression and to allow time to contemplate what that next thing will be…

Oh, and I almost forgot. Motif designed by Christine Anne Melvin, Granny’s Eye Granny Square!