Sometimes, having finished the repair at home, you look around the room and you understand - everything seems fine and beautiful, but something is missing. A bright spot that attracts attention, a catchy element that will decorate and revitalize the room, making it more comfortable. Do-it-yourself interior pillows can easily become such an accessory. Making them is easy!
Useful Tips
Before you start, you should consider:
- Having sewn a pillowcase for a pillow, you can combine the same thing with different designs.
- Before you sew a pillow, you need to decide for which room it is being prepared, and in what style it will be created (especially if there is no plan to replace the “clothes” for the pillow).
- Preparing for sewing, you need to remember about the pattern. You can copy the finished one, or you can do it yourself. A medium-sized rectangular pillow should be approximately 120 cm wide and half as high (of course, these numbers can be any other). It is very important not to forget to make an allowance of several centimeters on each side - for bending.
- Fabric for interior pillows is best taken denser - for furniture upholstery, for example. Jeans, felt, fleece are also perfect. Knitwear is sometimes used, but it is extremely unpredictable and moody.
- You can stuff a pillow with holofiber or synthetic winterizer. It is best not to take cotton wool - the pillow will instantly lose its shape.
- Original pillows can be sewn from old clothes, which is a pity to throw away.
- Combining several different fabrics, it is imperative to ensure that stretching (stretch) are not connected with non-stretching.
- An unusual effect will result if you embroider the pattern on the pillow with thin and thick threads for knitting.
- If the pillow is supposed to sleep, the material for its stuffing should be hypoallergenic.
Interior styles
Interior pillows can decorate any design, but, as a rule, they are most often used in rooms with a retro style, in children's rooms, in rooms in the style of Provence or shabby chic. I want to talk about the latter in a little more detail - for certain, not everyone knows what kind of “beast” this is.
Shabby chic
Shebby chic style, suitable for romantic natures, originated in England. It is for this style that pillows are suitable for no other. A similar design is chosen by gentle, sophisticated, feminine natures. This is what interior pillows are designed to emphasize. The style of shabby chic is characterized by the use of pastel colors, vintage details, romantic accessories, a large number of hand-made. This means that self-made pillows will come in handy here.
What do you need?
Nothing supernatural is required, but only:
- the cloth;
- pattern;
- needle with thread;
- lightning;
- details for decoration;
- sewing machine.
However, the latter is far from necessary, you can sew a pillow manually.
How to sew interior pillows with your own hands?
Patterns, as already mentioned, can be created independently. Once again: there is nothing complicated in creating pillows. The pattern must be transferred to the fabric, arm yourself with patience and forth. There are many options for creating pillows. After all, they are not only square and rectangular, but also of unusual shapes, for example, in the form of animals, flowers, letters, houses, puzzles.
You can even make a pillow-roller. True, for this you need foam. It is necessary to roll it up, measure the radius and length and cut a piece of suitable size from the fabric. Fold it inside out in half, sew the ends together (do not forget about the zipper!), Unscrew the fabric. Sew circles on the sides, decorate as desired, insert foam rubber into the fabric. And voila! The pillow is ready.
It is also very simple to sew interior pillows from shreds. Pieces of different shapes, sizes, colors need to be laid out in the necessary order and stitched, not forgetting to leave space in order to fill the pillow with filler. Such a pillow is sewn fastest.
Interior pillows from old clothes
If an old T-shirt is lying around in the house, which no one seems to be wearing, but it is a pity to throw it away, you can give her a second life by stitching a pillow from it. Make it easy. Having decided on the size of the future product, it is necessary to cut off the excess part from the bottom of the T-shirt. Then hem the cut and sew the zipper there. Stitch the sleeves and neck, turn the T-shirt inside out and fill with filler. It remains only to fasten the zipper and decorate the pillow as desired.
In addition to t-shirts, old sweaters, shirts, dresses are perfect for creating interior pillows. At the same time, you can make a pillow both with sleeves and a throat, and without them.
Pillows toys
If you need to decorate a child’s room, the best option, of course, will be children's interior pillow toys. They immediately fulfill a threefold function: they revive the interior, and are a toy for the baby, and allow him to sleep on them. There are a great many pillows-toys, for example, in the form of letters. Such products, in addition to the above options, will allow the child to learn the alphabet at the same time. Interior pillows are very popular. You can make them in different poses - lying, sitting, hanging, with a face or turned back. A lot of options, patterns - too.
Another successful find for the nursery will be interior pillow-dolls. It can be just simple products in the form of a person, or pillows with limbs sewn to them in clothes. Such pillows look very stylish and impressive. Often for children, products are also created in the form of the baby’s favorite characters.
Very unusual pillow-toys are pillow-pajamas. This is also a kind of doll pillow, but not really. It is a doll in pajamas (or a dress), whose arms and head are soft, stuffed with filler, and there is nothing under the pajamas / dress. At the same time, you can put something there at your own discretion, for example, the same small little thought.
It is desirable that the
pillows for the nursery be large - then the child will be able to play with her on the floor, including lying on her there, resting. If it is made in the form of any animal and it has a face, you can sew on bulging eyes or a nose - this will perfectly contribute to the development of fine motor skills of the baby. For the same purpose, by the way, a filler in the form of silicone balls, which are rolled at hand, is perfect.
How to decorate?
The issue of decor is the biggest open space for a fantasy flight. You can decorate your product with anything, as your heart tells you.
Usually they use sequins and rhinestones, beads, appliques, ribbons, yarn, lace and much more. The most important thing is to like it.
Puff finish
One of the most popular techniques for decorating interior pillows is puff trim. What it is? Puffs are nothing more than an ordinary drapery of fabric in the form of folds. These folds are made in such a way that they turn out to be voluminous and magnificent. There are special techniques for how to properly execute puffs. They should be located at equal distance from each other in parallel rows. Previously, the fabric must be marked with a special marker - put points on which you can later navigate. To create beautiful curly puffs is not at all difficult, and everyone can do it. However, it must be remembered that this activity is quite long, and therefore requires perseverance and time.
Silk or gabardine can become the material for the puffs, and it is permissible to connect the folds among themselves with the help of beads or rhinestones selected in color.
Embroidery ribbons
Another great way to decorate a handicraft (especially large interior pillows) is with ribbons. She became popular with fashionistas in the XVIII century. Then, mainly clothes were decorated in this way. In favor of this method is its ease and speed. To trim the pillow with ribbons is much faster than puffs, for example.
There are two ways to embroider ribbons: insert the ribbon into the needle and sew as if with threads, or roll the necessary jewelry (bow, flower, etc.) from the ribbon, and then sew it on to the clothes. It is very important to choose the right materials - they should be easy to bend and wrap. The fabric of ribbons can be any: from velvet to silk (the last option is traditional).
Knitted pillows
Crocheted interior pillows look very stylish and unusual. Moreover, they are very nice to touch - because they are so soft and warm to the touch. Therefore, for all "skilled hands" in terms of knitting, such a pillow is simply an irreplaceable option. And if you don’t want to knit a whole pillow, you can knit a beautiful openwork napkin and decorate the pillow with it. It will also be very original.
By the way, it should be noted that knitting, of course, can also be done with the help of knitting needles. However, for some reason, crocheted pillows are much more popular. Any yarn is suitable for such pillows, but it is best to take flax, wool mixture or thick cotton. Too thin threads are not recommended - unless the future pillow will always lie in its designated place and delight the eye.
Other ideas
All kinds of applications have already been discussed. It should only be noted that they can both be sewn and glued to the fabric. It is also permissible to decorate interior pillows with various patches in the patchwork style - this is a combination of different fabrics of different colors, sizes, shapes in the form of mosaics. It looks very unusual and interesting.
If the task is to emphasize the tenderness, romance of the room (especially in the style of shabby chic), then the best option would be to design a pillow with fabric colors. Colors in this case do not have to be pastel, you can choose bright shades.
Having bought acrylic paints for fabric, you can create a real masterpiece, which absolutely no one will be close to. And it is not necessary to be able to draw well for this. The main thing is to be the owner of a rich imagination. By the way, in art stores you can buy special stencils - this is if your hands do not grow from there.
Creating beauty and coziness in your home with your own hands is simple. It is only important to remember: eyes are afraid, and hands are doing. So try, do and fear nothing!