Making a decorative pillow can add beauty and warmth to your living room, your bedroom, or to your child's room. Pillows will add beauty and color to a room by using different types of fabric and design. You can buy new material, use scrape material from past sewing projects or use the material from a beautiful dress that you no longer wear. Pillows can be made as small or large as you like to fit the particular area to be decorated with them. Add your own personal touches with beads, ribbons, sequins, fabric paint, buttons, or embroidery. Be creative! They can also be useful and comfortable to lay on and there are many patterns for the larger type pillows. Each pillow that you make will be be unique and one of a kind. They also make great gifts!
You can start off with a basic pattern to make a square pillow or you can design patterns in different shapes.
Here is a simple way to make pillows:
To get started you will need:
Pins
Needle and Thread
Scissors
Tape Measure
Pillow Form
Fabric
If you want to make a design on the pillow such as bead work or painting do this to the fabric before you start to sew the pillow. It makes it easier to design when it is still a flat surface.
Pillows can be made any shape and size. A 15 inch square which will fit most pillow forms. No matter which style of pillow you like the basic way to make a pillow is the same simple process. You will simply take two identical fabric pieces and sew them right sides together. Sew all the way around but leave a 6-8" piece open to leave room to add your pillow form, down feathers or polyester filling.
Use a blind stitch with needle and thread to handstitch it closed or you could even pin the opening closed and sew it closed on the machine while adding fringe, lace or other embellishments to the outside bordered edge.
