It’s hard to find beautiful decorative pillows for your interior. But they can be made independently from simple, improvised materials that every housewife will find in the house. The article will give five master classes on how to make sofa cushions with your own hands.
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Standard fabric pillow
In order to sew a pillow, it is not necessary to have a specialist education, it is enough to have a fabric, a sewing machine and a desire.
- It is covered very simply for this you need a dense fabric.
- Fold it in half and draw a rectangle measuring 130 by 65, the seam allowance is taken into account.
- Cut it, stitch it, leaving free space for filling.
- In the form of a filler, a synthetic winterizer, finely chopped foam rubber or feathers can be used.
- Next, sew up the remaining gap.
- It remains only to decorate it or sew a beautiful and original pillowcase.
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Painting ordinary pillows with ice
You will need:
- pillowcases made from natural white fabric, for example, linen, cotton;
- a metal grate coated against a rusting compound, for example, an oven grate;
- capacity for the size of the lattice;
- dye powder for dyeing fabrics; several colors are possible;
- ice cubes and rubber gloves for work.
Fabric for future pillowcases or already finished, soak it well with clean water and lay it on a grate installed above the container. The fabric should not be laid out neatly without folds, on the contrary, crumple it a little.
Place pieces of ice on top of the cloth.
Sprinkle dye on top of it, one or several colors at once.
Wait until the ice has completely melted, rinse the product, dry and iron.
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Knitted pillows
A pillowcase for a decorative sofa cushion can be knitted independently using a hook or knitting needles, but what if you do not have such skills. There is always a way out, for sure you have an old sweater or such a knitted skirt in your house.
You will need:
- old sweater;
- thread and needle;
- ruler, scissors.
Spread the old thing at the seams.
Measure the dimensions of your pillow.
Transfer them to knitwear.
Cut and sew at the seams.
If you already have a pillow of the right size, put the resulting pillowcase on it and carefully sew the seam.
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Custom pillows with patterns
To create custom pillows you will need a pattern. Using it is much more convenient than cutting it by eye, especially since it will help to do everything without errors, especially if you need several identical products.
Pattern in the form of a cat, see diagram
- Decide on the size of the product.
- Draw a square and a rectangle on thick paper, be sure to leave allowances for the seams.
- Fold the fabric in half and transfer it to its pattern, sew it, leaving a space of about 15 cm unstitched, turn it out.
- Make ears, paws and a tail in the same way. Sew to the finished pillowcase.
- Eyes and mustache can be drawn with a felt-tip pen.
Similarly, no less interesting pillow models are created in the form of an owl, a dog or a boa constrictor.
Pillowcase with applique
A more sophisticated decor will be the application option. But then it will look original and very beautiful. Application can be done with buttons, ribbons, fabric ribbons, pieces of fur and leather.
- Download or draw a specific template.
- Cut it out of the fabric and attach it to one side of the future pillowcase.
- Gently fasten with needles, for sewing use the “zig zag” seam
- Iron the result of the work.
- Next, sew a regular pillowcase. Using front fabric with applique.
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Such sofa cushions will be a great decoration for any room.
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