How to make it yourself and arrange a decorative pillow: Instructions with photos
If you think the design of the room with decorative pillows - This is the manifestation of the meshness, you are deeply mistaken. There are quite a few styles for decorating the room, where "dums" of various forms, paintings and sizes play an important accent or background role. Original decorative pillows, made with their own hands, help to create comfort, moreover - they are very practical.
Without pillows, the superbly decorated room will not look finished. They can be used to strengthen the effect of beloved color or combine the tones and textures of the whole room.
With relatively small investments and money, new decorative pillows, made with your own hands, can revive the decor or change the entire atmosphere of the room. Bright flowers, for example, are able to bring a bit of summer; Beautiful Scott trees in the cell will remind the coziness of the winter; Red and green pads will create an atmosphere of a holiday.
At your request, you can sew decorative pillows with your own hands any size or shape. They can be strong enough to withstand children's battles, or made of tissues such thin, which can only be shown. You can make them simple or elegantly, to make large or small, puffed foam rubber, fibers or pen. But so that you can move all these opportunities to life, you should find something at first.
Video, photos and step-by-step master classes for the manufacture of decorative pillows with their own hands, as well as tips for their design are presented on this page.
When you make pillows yourself, you not only decide what they will be outside, but also choose a filler for them. There are many options - your choice. Below is described than you can fill the decorative pillow to decorate the room.
These photos show options for filling decorative pillows made with their own hands:
Goose fluff or feather.
Goose fluff - It is probably the first (and still the most luxurious) filler for pillows. He is appreciated for elasticity and comfort. Since he is expensive, it is often mixed (or even replaced) with pen. The pen is not so warm as the fluff, but this quality is more appreciated in dying blankets than in the pillows.
However, the feather, especially coarse and large, tends to break out through the tissue. Pits popping between tissue threads or along seams. In addition, such feathers create some inaccurability, they may be unpleasant to get into their sharp tips. Another disadvantage is that many people have allergies to the feather.
Fiberfill.
Fibrous filling, which consists of polyester fibers made by the type of pen, is the most practical option for homemade masters. It is inexpensive, it does not cause allergies and is distinguished very pleasant and convenient flexibility and elasticity.
You can purchase a pre-facing plug fiber all major forms, and you can buy fiber in the "cheese" by weight, and then give him the custod-shape that you like.
Foam filler.
Polyurethane foam - This is the basis for several main types of pillows. All these forms are easily erased and dried. There are several options:
Poropolone blocks: Filling suitable for seat pillows. Since such blocks are characterized by elasticity, they are comfortable for seating and always return to their original form, and therefore have a good appearance when not used. Before you fill the decorative pillow made with your own hands, foam blocks, they can be cut, giving the most intricate bends and corners.
Slices of foam rubber: They can fill pre-seated, inexpensive pillowcases for pillows. However, due to the fact that the pieces of foam rubber sprinkles strongly, they are usually too elastic than and not comfortable. This type of filling is also inclined to have a loud appearance, even if it is covered with a thick cloth.
Poropolone sheets: Pre-formed and sewn, foam sheets give a much more attractive appearance than slices of foam rubber. However, these sheets also distinguishes great elasticity, which is why they react to touch, like springboard. In fact, Neck Muscles have to work hard to adapt to such a foam rubber, and therefore some people feel fatigue, overlooking the night on such a pillow.
Simple decorative pillows are two panels stitched together and then stuffed with filler shaped. Such a type of pillow is thicker in the center and more flat on the edges. Most of the decorative pillows, all the bed pillows and some types of pillows for chairs are the so-called pillows with a sharp edge.
Beautiful decorative pillows, made with their own hands, can be square, rectangular, round or curly. You have chosen fabric also has a wide range of decorative features. You can make the top and bottom of the pillow of the same fabric, or from contrasting materials, or add your own decorative decorations. This article describes several options for choosing tissue and making decorative pillows.
The simplest technique from the point of view of the sewing is the manufacture of decorative pillows with its own hands with the closure of an unimpressed secret seam, and it is this closure method that is used in most instructions.
However, this type of closing has its drawbacks. If the pillow needs cleaning, then you must either wash it, or to go into a dry cleaning entirely, or you can remove the cover from it and clean it all separately, then insert the filler into the case and close the cover with a secret seam.
This manufacturing method is used for decorative pillows filled with fibers that can be erased, or for those products that rarely need cleaning. However, if the main thing for you is proper care, then you may need to think about one of the alternative methods of closing the opening: to enter a zipper or strip with hooks and hinge claps, or make the opening in the form of an envelope. All this is suitable for decorative pillows.
Below you learn how to sew a decorative pillow with zipper.
To sew a decorative pillow as described below, take a zipper that is about 5 cm shorter than the length of the opening (minus allowances on the seams). For example, for a square cushion, 35 cm will need zipper 30 cm.
Master class, how to sew a decorative pillow with a zipper with their own hands, looks like this:
For the manufacture of such a pillow, you need to use a VelCro tape or another clasp hinge, shorter the length of the opening (minus allowances on the seams).
Instructions, how to make a decorative pillow with a clasp "loop hook" with your own hands:
On these photos, it is shown how to sew a decorative cushion with a "loop hook" clasp:
Envelope clasp is especially popular for pillow, which are designed for regular use at night.
Step-by-step instructions, how to sew a decorative cushion with a "envelope" clasp:
Look at the video, how to sew a decorative pillow with a "envelope" clasp:
You can give the individuality of any pillow if you place her edges. Cord, corrugated finish, factory fruit, wavy braid and assemblies used independently or in combinations suitable in color or contrasting colors - all this is just a small part of decorative options.
In the manufacture of decorative pillows with their own hands on products with a sharp edge or on modern thick pillows, the edge is sewn along the seam line on the right side of the front section to the assembly of pillowcase. On ready-made thick pillows-boxes, such a finish is sewn along the front edge and the edges of the reverse side before the strip is attached.
To determine the amount of finishes: For square or rectangular pillows with a sharp edge: take the length of the length and width of the pillow shape, multiply it to 2, and then add 2.5 cm to the connection.
For square or rectangular modern thick pillows:calculate the same as for pillows with a sharp edge.
And how to arrange round decorative pillows with a sharp edge? To do this, take a flexible measuring tape to measure the cushion shaped circumference, then add 2.5 cm to the connection.
For round thick pillows:calculate how for pillows with a sharp edge.
For ready-made thick pillows: Calculate how for pillows with a sharp edge, and then multiply by 2.
On these photos, it is shown how to sew and arrange decorative pillows with your own hands:
There are many different types of pillow finishing that you can perform yourself. Below are some of the most popular of them.
Cord.
If it is used as a single finish, it will give any basic pillow professional, finished look. The cord can also be used in combination with assembly finishes and ready-made frills. First, notice the cord in place, and then the trick on top of the cord assembly or roller.
Wavy tips.
A large wavy tape gives the primary pillow type of an elegant rural view. For an additional effect, twist or make layers two colors braid. To sew such a braid, place it in the center above the seam line and notify in place. When the pillow is finished, the braid gives the edges to the toothed view.
Fringe.
A short-tight fruit-type fringe gives the product an elegant look. A long fringe or fringe with silver or golden threads is often made from shiny fibers, such as viscose or silk, and gives a more formal view.
Frill.
To give your pillows softness, think about buying ready-made, pre-assembled frills or make your own runoff, suitable or contrasting in color to fabric.
If you want the bedroom to look feminine, then the trick on the edges of the pillows two or three layers of ruffles with an increasing width.
To add ruffles of expressiveness, separate the edges with a narrow contrast baker or a narrow round bending and contrasting decorative thread.
Other finishes, such as narrow lace or strip of tape, can be combined with self-made rolling. Sew this finish before you collect and notice to the top of the roller cushion.
The ideas of the original decoration decorative pillows are demonstrated in this video:
Slip, Applique, Machine Embroidery and Fabric Coloring - Here are some ways to decorate the top of the pillow. After the pillow is tailored, but before collecting it, you can give her individual strokes.
To determine the work of the finish, cut out something like patterns from a brown paper package in size and shape of your pillow. Sketch a pencil finish at the place of the desired placement. Measure the line.
Original ideas for decoration pillows do it yourself:
See how beautiful decorative pillows, made with your own hands, on these photos:
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