Who Doesn’t Like a Good Pillow

Last I showed you our bedroom was looking like this…

We had purchased some new bedding that we fell for at Target and just to keep you all posted it is super comfy and working out great, it’s even char man approved.

How cute is he? Anyway, this bed was much in need of some pillows to beef it up a bit. So, I got to hang out with my sewing machine for a little bit. I decided to just cover the old pillows that were on this bed previously…

I’m talking about those three blue guys on the bed. Here’s what I did…

I started by taking some scissor and slicing those old covers that I had previously made right off(yes I am recovering previously covered pillows, no waste here). Once I had my old pillows ready to be recovered I needed to decide on what fabric I wanted to use. I thought that I definitely needed to go with a lighter color since the bedding is pretty dark. I thought white would be nice and I just so happened to already own the perfect fabric for the job.

It’s the white fabric that I used on the cornice in our room…

Once I had decided on the fabric I cut it about an inch wider than the pillow’s length on each of the four sides. I had to cut four squares, one front and one back piece for each pillow…

Look at those snazzy squares. From there I sewed three sides of the fabric together back side of the fabric facing outward…

For the last side that was left open, I sewed a small portion of this side shut. I sewed inward from the corners leaving a small gap open in the center. This probably makes no sense, hopefully this picture will help…

See how the top and the bottom are sewed about an inch and a half inward? Then I flipped it inside out.

I had to make sure I pushed the corners out completely, they got stuck slightly because it is a thicker fabric.

From there I just shoved the pillow inside.

Once the pillow was inside I flipped the extra fabric around the hole inside as well. Then I just needed to sew that sucker up. I made sure the folds were even and I used the sewing machine to sew the last side shut.