DIY pillows

13.05.2019

If you are not a professional seamstress or designer, but you have an extra meter or two of furniture fabric and a desire to occupy yourself with something for a couple of hours, then this article is for you. We will teach you how to sew a decorative pillow for furniture decor. You'll see, it will turn out no worse than in glossy magazines with perfect interiors.

A regular square pillow is very easy to make, but if you want to freeze a little, you can decorate it with a fringe or make it with a zipper.

Let's start with the usual decorative pillows.

Cut 2 pieces of fabric of about 40-50 cm each. These are standard sizes of throw pillows. But we do not want to limit the flight of your imagination, so you can make your own pillow of any size and shape, starting from the size of your sofa.


To make the pillow look more stylish, you can use 2 different fabrics. For example, choose a fabric in the same shade, but with a different texture. Or, perhaps, for the front side, choose a fabric with a pattern, and choose the back one in tune with the base.


Place 1 piece of cloth on the table face up, and cover it with another piece on top, so that the cloth is face to face. Fasten the fabric on all sides.


Stitch the fabric on all sides, departing from the edge of about 1.5-2 cm. Do not forget to leave a gap of 12-15 cm in size on one side of the decorative pillow. He will need to unscrew the cover and fill the pillow.


Before removing the cover, cut corners on it. But be careful not to accidentally hit the seam and do not make a hole! Such a life hack will help to make the corners sharp, not rounded, when the pillow is ready.


Remove the pillow cover on the front side and fill it with any filler that you have on hand.


Take a thread similar in color to the fabric and, using a needle, manually sew the gap on the pillow. And voila, your brand new pillow is ready!

To make a pillow with a fringe, you have to do a little more manipulation

As in the previous version, cut two identical pieces of fabric. And they still need to cut the fringe, which is equal in length to the perimeter of the pillow.


Place a piece of cloth, which will be on the front side of the pillow, on the table so that the pattern looks up. Fringe spread edge to the center.


Attach the fringe to the base of the pillow around the edges with a manual sweeping stitch, stepping back just a couple of millimeters. Then cover with the second piece of fabric, putting it face down, and stitch it all together. Do not forget about the gap for the filler!


Turning the cover, fill the pillow and sew the gap. And now, you are the happy owner of a designer pillow!


And now the most difficult option - a pillow with a cover on the lock

At the first stage, nothing new - we cut off two pieces of furniture fabric of the same size. We put them on each other, face to face. Pin them along one side.


Then, manually using a basting stitch, fasten 2 pieces of fabric. Then remove the pins and iron the seam to make it flat.


Take the zipper and attach to the seamy side of the seam. Lightning teeth should be located exactly along the seam line.


After you have centered the zipper, attach it on both sides.


Remove the basting stitch from the fabric and undo the zipper. The zipper should be unbuttoned so that you can fill the pillow when you are finished sewing.


Again fold the fabric on the wrong side and sew the remaining 3 edges.


Remove the pillow, insert a bag of filler through the zipper, distribute and fasten the zipper. That's basically it! These pillows are the most versatile, because you can easily remove the cover at any time and wash.


And if you do not have the necessary fabric at hand, you can choose it in our catalog. Besides, already on the site, the appropriate fabric companions by our experts were selected for each design. This will greatly simplify your choice!

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