Decorating for the holidays can be wizardly . Christmas trees and twinkly lighting make everything so special . However , after decorating my house , it always seems that some of my furnishing do n’t go so well with my holiday decorations .
There ’s a way to make your everyday furnishings coalesce with all of the festal decoration — and it will take you less than an 60 minutes . Decorative vacation pillow will give your furnishings that completed vacation feel that you desire .
Sewing a few envelope pillow covering made to match your vacation décor is well-fixed and inexpensive . I simply recover pillows that already sit on my sofa . They are standard 16- by 16 - column inch pillow form that I purchase from a framework store , but these covers can be made to fit any pillow you have in your firm . If you may operate a sewing machine , then you ’ll have no job sewing them .
Materials for One covert :
To keep costs down , I used two fertile twenty-five percent ( cost $ 7 ) for my pillow forepart and drop textile for thepillow backs . I had the drop material in my cache , but a squeamish broadcloth would also cultivate well . ( mention : If you plan to apply drop cloth , be indisputable to bleach and neutralize it first ; otherwise , the colorisn’t very attractive . )
Making Your Pillow Covers :
Cut a material square for your cloth for the pillow front that is 1 in greater in length and 1 inch greater inwidth than the pillow form . I cut out a piece that is 17 by 17 inches because my pillow form is 16 by 16 inches .
Because this is an envelope cover , you will need a slightly wider fabric spell for the pillow back . To make the envelope part , follow this unproblematic pattern : Take your pillow mannikin dimension andadd 1 inch to the duration and 5 inches to the breadth . For my pillow , that means cutting out a piece of fabric that is 17 by 21 inches .
Next , trim down the back piece into one-half , leaving you with two 17- by 10½-inch piece for my case . On each of the pillow back pieces , doublefold under the long ( 17 - inch ) edge of both pieces . Press andtop stitch .
With veracious face together , place the two back slice on top of the front pieces . The finishededges should overlap and give you the envelope effect .
Using a 1/2 ” furrow allowance , run up around the integral pillow cover . act and press .
Putting together the pillow cover is loose . For more elaborated instructions , see my tutorialHowto Make an Envelope Pillowthat explain all of the steps ( with additional directions showing howto run up a French wrinkle ) .
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