Your pillow is gorgeous!!!!!!! I need to make one :)
I also have trouble with corners sometimes. I clip near the seam and use that pointy thing I have (sorry I forgot what it's called!) and that helps.
Beautiful work!!

Sew Batik sells a pillow corner template for the Dritz Home Company that gives you great slightly reduced corners. For pillows 12 to 20 inches. $6.00

Thank you for your suggestions and links. I have bookmarked all of them and will check them out for the next pillow. I have thought about redoing this pillow, but it is a Christmas gift and I don't think I have the time! I also wonder if I should have sandwiched the top and quilted it. Well, next time! Love this board!

If I am using a pillow form, I also stuff some poly fill (sp?) in the corners. This helps to keeps the corners point-y.

Why don't we all just decide that pillows are SUPPOSED to have pointy corners!

Beautiful by the way!

I always put cotton balls in the corners to take up the room and they look better.

Thanks for that, PP. I've done this for year but just sort of winged it. I like having a formula on how to taper the corners. I've always done something that makes it easier to get a nice corner with a bunch of fabric in it. I take 2 or 3 stitches across the corner rather than stitching right up to the corner and then down the other side. It's easier to get a non-bulky corner without trimming your seam allowances down to almost nothing.

Taking 2 or 3 stitches on the bias across the corner is a really good way to turn lots of corners that have bulk in them, like pot holders and even pillow cases.
And I really like the trimmed seam allowances at the corners, too. That makes sense.

Gorgeous pillow!

I make the seam allowance slightly larger on the last two inches of the seam at the corners, this looks like a slight curve but the forms fill out the corners better.