Easy Peasy Pillow Makeover
After reupholstering my sofa, I still hadn’t gotten around to making some pillows for it. So I started experimenting. Here is what I came up with.
I am not sure I am going to keep this one for long, but it was a fun so I thought I would share. I dug through my scraps and came up with this combination, but I wasn’t as happy with them as I thought I would be. It is just a little too boring. After a few false starts, I figured out how to piece it together in curved instead of straight lines. I am kind of excited about that and trying to figure out what to make next with this new skill. Here is the easy peasy part. I cheated… I used an already made pillow cover. Here is how I did it. You can click on the image to see it bigger.
After I pieced my new front for this pillowcase, I laid the pre-made pillowcase down on top and cut it to be the same size as the pillow. I trimmed another 3/8 of an inch off of that so it would lay flat for the next step. Then after turning the pillowcase inside out, I laid my new pillowcase front inside and pinned it all the way around so it wouldn’t slip while I was sewing. If you try this, you have to make sure that it lays flat and goes all the way out to each edge, and you also need to be able to see your new front looking at you through the zipper opening. When that was done, I made a new seam about and inch from the edge so that the edge of my new front would get sewn into the new seam. I turned it right side out and Viola! New pillow with a zipper and everything!
Aha! That is so clever! I bet I could do that! :-) Thanks!
The pillow cover is so creative. When I make my quilted bags out of strips of different fabrics, they often don’t look very good until I quilt them. The quilting brings the different prints together somehow. Have you considered sewing some curves, lines, or even some free motion stuff onto the pillow top? It might make you like it better.