A whimsical Swedish Christmas pillow with a checkerboard back and a button closure. Featuring Julbocken, Santa Lucia, paper hearts, Dalahästen and more. The pillow is 20-inches square. It takes 3 skeins of each color in either Malabrigo Worsted or Berroco Modern Cotton.

Size
20 x 20 inch pillow

Yarn
Berroco Modern Cotton Worsted (209 yards 191 meters per 100g skein)
Yarn A: Rhode Island Red 1650; 3 100-gram skeins
Yarn B: Sandy Point 1601; 3 100-gram skeins
Or
Malabrigo Worsted (210 yard 192 meters per 100g skein
Yarn A: Ravelry Red MM611; 3 skeins
Yarn B: Natural MM063; 3 skeins

Needles
32-inch (80cm) gauge-size circular needle and one 32-inch (80 cm) needle one size smaller than gauge
Suggested size: 3 mm and 2.75mm

Notions
Darning needle
5 3/4-inch buttons
1 20 x 20 inch pillow form

Skills needed for making pillow

Long-tail cast on
Joining in the round
Knitting colorwork in the round
A tiny bit of purling in colorwork in the round
Chart reading skills
Catching floats
Binding off
Button holes
Hand sewing.

The chart is surprisingly easy and fun to knit. You will love watching the motifs emerge. It’s a bit like painting by number.