striped pillow {tutorial}

As promised, here is the tutorial for that cute striped pillow in the july giveaway.

july-giveaway

{have you entered to win the july goodies yet? click here for a chance}

striped pillow

A little back story … my in-laws were out of town this past weekend and we were at their house waiting for my brother & sister-in-law to come into town. The kids were busy playing with nonna’s toys, so I took it upon myself to raid nonna’s sewing supplies.  Had she not been snorkeling in the warm Maui waters, I would have called to ask first. Hope you don’t mind grandma nonna and thanks for letting me use your stuff!

Okay, on to the tutorial.

Here’s what you’ll need:

supplies

:: two contrasting fabrics

:: pillow insert {I used an 18 x 18}

:: scissors, pins, iron & sewing machine

STEP ONE: cut strips of fabric

cut

Decide how large or small you would like your stripes, then add 1/2 to 1 inch for seam allowance. I cut these strips 3 inches x 20 inches. 

rip

Do you know this trick? If you make a little snip in the fabric {with the weave}, you can tear a straight strip. Makes life easy.

Here are the stack of strips:

strips

STEP TWO: pin one of each fabric right sides together

pin

pin 2

STEP THREE: stitch along one long edge

sew

STEP FOUR: press seams open

seams

iron

Do the same to each set of strips.

pieces

STEP FIVE: put two sets of sewn pieces right sides together and stitch along one long edge

right sides together

stitch again

Press seams open again and continue with each piece until you’ll have this:

finished

STEP SIX: add back piece of fabric, pin and stitch around the edges {leaving an opening to insert pillow}

back

pin

STEP SEVEN: trim excess fabric

trim

STEP EIGHT: turn right-side out, insert pillow and hand stitch closed

handstitch

The finished pillow:

pillow 2

pillow

I want to try one with linen stripes, and a few more with outdoor fabric in thick black & white awning stripe.

Enjoy!

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