The end product.
How did I do it?!
Finding the perfect fabric is so important to
me. I am all about texture. I love the way leather feels cool when you
first touch it, the softness of a chenille blanket wrapped around my feet at
night, worn wood of a coffee table that’s been saturated in natural oils, the
coarse grains of burlap wake me up, and the perfect amount of silkiness in
Sateen Beech sheets put me to sleep. I
needed something just perfect for me. I
found muslin. I hadn’t worked with this
fabric before and really enjoyed the soft feel of its natural, earthy,
texture. I purchased a 2 yards of
“whites”: ecru and natural.
I really love 3D flower patterns on
pieces The wedding dress I dreamed of
getting a few years ago had the entire bottom covered in big modern
flowers. I settled for a less modern
look and think it worked out well!
Back to the pillows…I kept seeing the pretty flower patterns from designs on Pinterest and knew I wanted to make a large flower on one pillow. I also wanted to make two more pillows. I started off with ruffles and writing. I wanted to write on one and put lines of ruffles on the other. I took to my sewing machine.
After finishing the ruffled pillow and
showing it to my husband, I decided to scrap that idea since it really didn’t
fit our joint style at all. My husband
is very modern so I drew up a picture of chevron print, to which he approved.
Here’s how I did the 3 pillows.
Pillow 1: Flower
1. Measure the pillow size you want (I
went off an existing pillow I was going to cover) and cut 2 pieces of equal
sized fabric leaving about ½ in on each side for stitching and any mistakes.
2. Sew your zipper if you would like to
use one for easy cleaning, if you don’t want a zipper then skip along to the
next step.
3. Cut 20-30 three inch diameter circles
and 20-30 two inch diameter circles. I
traced the bottom and top of a glass onto my fabric and cut the circles out
individually.
4. In the center of one of your pillow fabric
pieces trace a circle. I used a plate.
5. Fold your large circles in half, even
make a little tuck if you want for depth (see picture) and pin in place. Do this around the entire circle to make your
first row of petals. Sew with your machine using the basic
stitch.
6. Place more of your large circles folded
in half inside your sewn in circle of petals’.
Keep doing that and gradually move to the smaller circles you cut.
7. To Sew your pillow together, pin it
inside-out and use a basic stitch around the edges of the 2 fabrics, leave an
opening to hand stitch after putting in your stuffing if you did not insert a
zipper.
FINISHED! Now you have a beautiful flower pillow!
1. Follow steps 1 & 2 above.
2. Iron Under Wonder, a fabric adhesive,
to the fabric you want as your chevron color.
3. Freehand draw or use a pattern to make
zig-zags aka chevrons on your fabric.
You can write directly on the under wonder.
4. Cut your chevrons and peel the Under Wonder
paper off your fabric. Your fabric
should be slightly sticky or shiny pending on the Under Wonder you used.
5. Space your chevrons on your pillow and
simply iron them in place when you have them set.
6. Sew your pillow together as described in
step 8 above.
Pillow 3 – Words
FINISHED. Now you have an awesome chevron pillow!
1. Follow steps 1 & 2 from your flower
pillow.
2. In Microsoft Word, type out what you
would like to have on your pillow. Print
that. I used words from our wedding
vows!
3. Place your print under your
fabric. If your fabric is light, and you
can see your words, proceed to trace them.
If it is not, you can try putting white graphite paper under your
printed paper and trace that directly onto your fabric. I know this works for dark wood signs, not
sure if it’s the same on fabric….
4. Sew your fabric up as described in step 8 from your flower pillow.
4. Sew your fabric up as described in step 8 from your flower pillow.
5. Now you have pillow with whatever
saying you would like!
If sewing intimidates you, you can
easily do pillows 2 & 3 without having to thread a needle. All you need is some pre made pillow cases,
extra fabric and under wonder for the chevron pillow and a fabric pen found at
many craft stores for the words pillow!
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