30-minute Textured Embellishment Pillow

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

30-minute Textured Embellishment Pillow

I made this little pillow the other night.

I guess I didn't realize that St. Patrick's Day is so close!

But you could actually make this pillow for any occasion -- just change the word out to whatever you want to say.

This is a basic, envelope pillow which requires no zipper. Cheryl from A Pretty Cool Life has a great 10-minute Pillow Cover Tutorial that will show you how to make one.

I used my Silhouette to make the word "Lucky" and I had some left over pink heat transfer material left over from my Valentine's Pillows, so I used that. But if you don't have a Craft Cutter, you could stencil a word on your pillow. OR, write on it with Sharpie. Have you seen the Sharpie pillows from Dear Lillie?

I like the combination of pink and green -- kind of preppy!

When you are using Heat Transfer material, be sure to flip your image {mirror image} on your settings.

I attached the word to my pillow cover with my iron.

Then I made a messy, textured arrangement.

To do this I took 5 different types of material. I ripped each strip of material 1 inch wide by 16 inches in length. I ripped 2 or three strips for each pattern of material. So I ended up with about 15 different strips of material. I also had a length of lace left over from a different project, so I added that too.

Then I made three Rolled Flowers. I have a detailed Rolled Flower tutorial here if you want directions on how to make these.

I love adding these little rolled flowers to all sorts of projects. They are very versatile. Then I looped the material up in a messy arrangement and sewed a few straight stitches across all of the strips with my sewing machine to anchor them all in place.

The last thing I did was take a needle and thread and sew on the three rolled flowers on top of the arrangement. I also put some fabric glue under each of the flowers to make sure they were really attached well.