Pintrest Challenge: Gussying Up the Sectional

It's my first time participating in the YHL/Bower Power Pintrest Challenge- woo hoo! And now that we have a whole blog dedicated to stalking following along with the Petersiks, it's the perfect place to show you my teeny tiny project.
You see, I'm a procrastinator to the core, I leave things to the last minute ALL. THE. TIME. So I came up with this idea yesterday. :) It all started with our new sectional (so excited about this purchase!! See cute video of my daughter Evie's excitement about it here). Right now, the color scheme in our family room is brown, brown, brown- with blue accents. I have a hard time committing to color, and throwing different patterns into the same room freaks me out. I seriously considered buying more of the curtains hanging in the family room, and just making a bunch of pillow covers out of it so everything matched. But then I pinned this from Centsational Girl- whom I also love- about how to style a sofa with pillows. And she gave these great tips about mixing and matching patterns, colors, etc. And so, my mom helped me choose another color to accent with (apple green!) and I shopped Target and went to JoAnn's. I decided to do a mix of store bought pillows and homemade pillow covers, since I had some I could reuse.
Here are the fabrics I came home with from JoAnn's:

Pillow number one: have you guys seen this pin?

Well I'm not much of a sewer, so I decided to do this one first. :) Note to those of you recreating this- I recommend getting more than a yard of fabric. I got a yard, wrapped it around a 16x16 pillow, and the tails were too short to actually tie a square knot. I ended up tying it once, then wrapping one of the tails around and securing it with a safety pin. Here it is.

I might take it apart and iron the fabric.... or I might not. But I wanted to get it done for today so I was rushing!! The other two fabrics I'm just going to sew plain pillow covers for, one 18x18 and one 14x14. I haven't done them yet bc I don't have a sewing machine (borrowing mom's this weekend), so I just wrapped them around pillows to get the effect for now. ;) 

The blue with the brown button is a pillow cover from Lowe's, and the bright blue long pillow was on clearance at Target. It has beading, it's really pretty but not comfortable at all. I think I want two more... probably these:

I looked everywhere at JoAnn's for an Ikat similar to this and found not one single ikat!!! So I'll probably buy it because it's perfect. :) So that's my half done Pintrest Challenge. I'm starting slow here... no judging!

Here are the completed projects from Young House Love, Bower Power, The Remodeled Life, and Decor and the Dog- these lovely ladies were our hosts for this round. Board and batten is a dream of mine down the road for our dining/sitting room, and I LOVE Katie's ruler, I've been wanting to do one of those too. Maybe by the time Evie turns two we can get to it. Michelle's wall buttons are super duper cute!! I love buttons, I'd definitely consider hanging them on my wall. :)  And I would like some of the fabric Megan covered her ottoman with, please and thank you.