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Designer Pillows

Designer Pillows

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Designer Pillows

Designer Pillows

Create your design with stripes and angles

Designer Pillowsby Ellen

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Pillow DesignGone are the days when a pillow was a simple sack of

feathers used to rest one’s head at night.

Today pillows come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and fabrics.

Pillows are used in mostly for interior design purposes.

If you’re looking for the perfect pillow touches to finish off a lovely space in your home, consider buying or making some artfully designed accent pillows.

Pillow Design – Brighten & Soften

Use pillows wherever you want to see a little more softness and a splash of color or some added texture.

Pillow Design – Improve look of your furniture

If you have a sofa or a chair that is starting to look warn, adding some accent pillows can give a piece a whole new appearance

Pillow Design – Select your fabrics

Sewing your own pillows, you’ll need Fabric for the front, the back and the trim.

Trim is used for decoration and to erase seams.

Even if you don’t have another fabric that matches, you can always find something to match later.

Pillow Design Use Fabrics with Sentimental

Value

Many people crate pillows with a special meaning by incorporating specific fabrics like pieces of a wedding dress, a baby blanket or a grandmother’s drapery.

This is a nice alternative to storing these items away and never seeing them again.

Pillow Design – For A Low PricePillows are an inexpensive way to express

yourself and to add to your interior, so sketch some designs, pick out fabric and start sewing!

Pillow Design – Natural FillingsNatural pillows tend to feel more comfortable

and durable than synthetic kind, and allows you to re-fluff the pillow.

Ultra Poly Down 50% poly & 50% 10/90 down

25% Down and 75% Goose Feather

Pillow Inserts•Always fill your pillow with a quality pillow form.

•Your pillow will look only as good as the pillow form inside .

•White Goose Down and Feather is my first choice.New Down Essence : The Ultimate Down Alternative

Ultra Poly Down: Miracle Blend of 10/90 white goose down & feather combined with ultra resilient poly blend.

White Goose Down and Feather: Super-sanitized, hypo-allergenic, blended for maximum natural loft and softness

Pillow Inserts

Poor Quality Pillow InsertsBalls of polyester/Dacron stuffed in a paper like

cover.

What size should you purchase?

The pillow insert should be 2 inches larger than the pillow cover. A to small insert will look sloppy and not retain it’s shape

A oversized form will make wrinkle marks that will come through the pillow cover.

Over stuffing will put stress on the pillow and make it hard looking.

Cutting Out the Pillow Designing a pillow is a great way to

use scraps and small pieces of high-end designer fabrics.

T0 cut cost of trim and labor, I leave the back of the pillow plain. This allows you to have a reversible pillow

Cutting Out the PillowUse a Sew Fit cutting mat and a rotary cutter. The Sew Fit Translucent Pin-able Cutting Mat can also accommodate pins.

24” x 36” is $3240” x 60” is $72

Each Mat is full grid on all Four sides cm/inches, withtrue bias lines.

60”mm olfaRotary cutter

Cutting Out the Pillow

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Cutting Out the Pillow

Finish Pillow Size 20” x 20”Pillow Insert size is 22”x 22”Cut size for fabric 19” X 19”

Lay fabric on to cutting table with right sides together

Determine center of design for placement of the pillow

Using a ruler and rotary cutter, cut your fabric to size.

Cutting Out the PillowCutting of the corners to prevent DOG EARS!

Laying the ruler ¼” down from the edge and place It to the center of the fabric

Trim off ¼” on each corner, starting in the middle so that the corners curve in.

This will give the illusion of a square when sewn together

Cutting Out the PillowMeasurements from 11" to 30" at 1" increments. Made of a heavy duty, transparent, plastic material which allows a design to be centered exactly where it is needed. Designed for making square pillows only. Eliminates "Dog EarsMade of heavy duty, transparent plastic material which allows a design to be centered exactly where it is needed. Template is designed for making square, round or rectangular pillows. Template has printed measurements drawn in 1" intervals, from 10" to 24". Allows you to center on any fabric before cutting

Cutting Out the PillowEliminating Misshapen CornersTo make professional looking, tailored corners on pillows that have corners sewn at right angles, slightly taper the fabrics raw edges at the corner as shown below. Cut away ½ inch on each corner with a gradual angle towards the center of the pillow. Cut this angle on all corners.

Cutting Out the PillowCutting your pillow is easiest when using a Sew Fit cutting mat and a rotary cutter. As a professional we want to save time cutting and sewing. Not having to measure for every pillow that I make just saves time. The Sew Fit Translucent Pin-able Cutting Mat—Soft Mats that can accommodate pins. Each Mat is has a full grid on all four sides.

Sewing Decorative Accents on Pillows


•Great Way to add accent fabrics to your room

•Always match color of thread when stitching trim and braids

•Always finish and serge pillow seams before sewing the pillow

•Inserts can be added by stitching on the top side of the pillow

•You can use adhesive tape to attach the decorative accent

Invisible ZippersHigh-end designer pillows are sewn with invisible zippers. The invisible zipper is hidden in the seam which creates a beautiful finished pillow.

Place zipper teeth next to decorative welt cord (zipper tape should line up with selvage edge of pillow). Stitch zipper to fabric with a basting stitch

Invisible Zippers

Roll teeth flat (open) and stitch in the ditch as close as possible to zipper teeth without stitching the teeth. Start and stop stitching about 2” from each end of the pillow.

Invisible Zippers

With right sides together pin zipper in place at the bottom of the pillow back matching outside edges of the pillow. (Open zipper at this time).

Invisible Zippers

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