Here is the third project from the Garage Sale Fabric.
The two pillows below are from when I was in my country french phase. They’ve been living in my linen closet for about 4 years waiting to start their next life. Well, last Saturday was the day for them to be reborn.
Pillows sporting their old attire.
Here they are in their new (garage sale) fabric. The middle pillow has been out of the closet for a couple of years now and is happy to have some company.
Same pillows (on ends) sporting their new duds.
I covered them in the wide wale, light aqua corduroy. It’s so soft. Perfect for a couch pillow.
Below is the easiest way I know to make a pillow cover. There are only 2 seams!! (I do apologize for the photos. I was figuring out how to make these as I was making them and didn’t take any photos during the process.)
Place your pillow on your FLAT fabric (not folded as seen in the photo).
Add 1″ to the height (so 12″ high pillow = 13″ high fabric).
Cut your strip of fabric.
With pillow still on fabric strip, wrap the sides of the fabric strip so they overlap about 4″ and trim width if needed. (16″ wide pillow = approx. 40″ wide strip of fabric)
Remove pillow.
Fold the side edges over and stitch to finish the edges.
Place pillow on flat fabric and overlap/wrap finished edges so that the pillow is snug.
Pin at overlap edges at top.
Remove pillow and smooth cover so you can pin the bottom overlap.
Sew top and bottom seams. 1/2″ seams.
Turn case right side out.
Iron if necessary.
Put pillow in cover.
I’m sorry, I love your pillows but all I can think right now is “WHITE COUCH!?” Oh my goodness, I’d be a nervous wreck with a white anything in my house. Either you don’t have kids yet or they’re grown to the point you can trust them, or you don’t allow them in the room?
Okay, back to the pillows… much improved!
About the white couch… It’s the best couch decision I ever made. I bought it at IKEA and it’s slipcovered so I just wash the slipcover (with a nice dose of bleach added) whenever it’s dirty and voila, it’s like new again. AND a replacement slipcover is only $50 at IKEA! So, I let the two kids and the dog lay all over it and don’t worry. I love it so much I bought the same couch and loveseat for my family room! There’s a whole lotta white fabric at my house (all washable).
Love the pillows! The colors are great! We have two white chairs from ikea that have slipcovers and I love them, it’s so easy to just throw the slip over in the wash and then it’s clean again. I’m constantly vacuuming our couch (not slip covered) and am thinking that would be the way to go next time! I think about how much time I would save cleaning if I didn’t have two dogs and a cat, but they’re worth it!
thanks for this! i’m in need of doing some pillow recovering myself, so this will come in handy.