This is my very first guest post!! My good friend Catherine (yep, same name and same spelling!) made sure to document her first attempt at making pillow covers and I'm so glad she did! I want to try it now!
How to make your own pillow covers at home for cheap!
What you'll need:
- More than enough fabric for the size pillows you have
- Ugly pillows that need a face lift
- Scissors
- Matching thread
- Sewing machine
These perfectly sized (clean) pillows were at Goodwill for $1 each! What an awesome score!
My living room theme is animal prints and so I found this awesome animal print to use! I got 1.33 yards of each style for about 18"x18" pillows. It was more than enough but it's better to have too much than not enough! Even so, you could probably get away with 1 yard per standard sized toss pillow.
Directions:
Iron all the wrinkles out of the fabric.
Cut the fabric down to size. It was about 20"x40". Then fold it in half.
Keep the fabric inside out and sew 3 of the 4 sides with approximately 1" inseam. Leave one side open so you can easily slip the pillow inside.
Stuff the pillow inside then hand sew the final side together. Check out this awesome tutorial to do a fancy hidden stitch.
Now toss them on the couch, sit back, relax and enjoy!
Don't those look so great? She did such an awesome job! Thank you, Catherine for documenting and providing my little blog with its very first guest post! We'll be looking for more fantastic projects from you soon!
Have you ever made your own pillow covers? Don't you just love that green zebra print?
Till next time,
Catherine
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