This tutorial will be featuring the first pillow, though. Here’s what you’ll need to make an 17″ square pillow: * 1 yard of fabric – at least 45″ width * 17″ square pillow form * Sewing needle and thread * Sewing machine for pillow form * Scissors *Chick flick Optional: * Button or other embellishment for center Step 1) Cut out the pieces for your pillow form. I used a tutorial from Brooke from All Things Thrifty to make my pillow form. For our 17″ pillows, we will need one 18″x18″ piece and two 18″x12.5″ pieces. Step 2) Tear your strips of fabric for the flower. I did mine up the 36″ side, and if you’ve never torn fabric, it’s typically easy depending on the fabric you’ve chosen (the satin fabric I had on my wedding dress pillow was MUCH too strong to tear, so I had to cut that one and then fray the edges by taking out strings from the edge). For regular cotton fabrics, cut a small snip at 3″, and just go ahead and rip straight up the fabric! I ended up with 6 strips were 3″x36″.
I hold on to the rosette and the fabric and flip it over to stitch it with my right hand. Here’s a pic of the reverse side:
Mine looked quite messy from the back once finished:
But no worries…she’s just lovely on the front! Step 6) Add your center embellishment. I used three small buttons for this one.
Step 7) Use Brooke’s tutorial to finish the rest of the pillow, and BE SURE to tuck in your flower edges when you’re sewing, so you don’t accidentally sew the “petal” into your seam! Since my flower was a slightly imperfect, my pillow ended up being more of a rectangle than a square. I stitched up the side of my pillow form and cut the excess right off. Not bad for a tester project! I thought she might want to live in the master bedroom with our wrought iron headboard:
But she asked if she could chill in my Mom Cave, so I let her stay in there instead. 😉
Thanks for spending a few minutes with me (or an hour or so if you’re making your own!). And a ginormous MAHALO to Kari for letting me spend the day here on her blog. She’s a supah star. If you’re freezing your buns off and need to spend a day in Hawaii, you now know where to find me! Stop by Attempting Aloha and soak up some sunshine!! Aloha, Charlie
Using your wedding dress!! What an awesome idea!! I always hate the idea of having mine hanging in the closet for years, inevitably just going to waste. These pillows are a perfect idea for repurposing and enjoying those wedding day memories! 🙂
As a person who is getting married this summer {120 days to go, omg, I’m going to vomit}, I absolutely LOVE this idea! Even if I do have a daughter {fingers crossed} I doubt she’ll want to wear my dress, although I think it’s quite fabulous myself. 🙂 What a wonderful way to share and showcase your wedding dress!
Chopping up your wedding dress? Oh, I could never do it! Beautiful pillow though!
I love, love, love this! I’ve been wanting to attempt this for a while now and might just work up the courage. Not with my wedding dress, though. I don’t think I’d ever have that much courage. lol Thanks for sharing your gorgeous pillow tutorial.
I love it! You are very daring to chop up your wedding dress, but I’m a wuss. I think I’ll stick with the linen pillow, and this is filed under my “must make for baby girl’s room” file!
Wow, this is great. What a great gift for your girls. I can’t even sew a button on but maybe can find someone who could do this! Thanks for sharing.
Amazing…and she writes so well, and so comfortably, like she’s just talking with us. I love it. Beautiful pillow!
Love,
C:)
Super cute!!! I love this pillow!! I’m totally doing this!!
Great tutorial! I’m going to try this (in a much smaller scale) to decorate a onesie for my daughter!
Great tutorial! Thanks so much! I will have to use a different fabric though…. my wedding dress was baby blue! X