Saturday, September 10, 2011

4 Bandana pillows with Amie of Completely Unfinished

Hello, Brighid's House readers! I'm Amie from Completely Unfinished. I'm big into crafting & creating so when Sonya was nice enough to ask me to do a guest post, I thought I would do a DIY.
I discovered that I own WAY too many bandanas and that they should be made into something useful. Since I'm kind of obsessed with making all kinds of pillows, I figured why not turn them into an easy sewing project? This is great if you want a quick way to add some change & color to a space...plus chances are you'll always have a bandana or two lying around if you think you don't have any fabric on hand. I found cute leopard print & plaid ones at Walmart. For all you sewing pros..just skip all this, you'll know what to do! First, take two bandanas of your choice. I personally like to use contrasting colors so you can just flip the pillow for a different look. Pin right sides together, and sew around all sides leaving about a 3 inch gap on one side. Before you use that gap to turn it right side out, don't forget to clip those corners! Stuff your pillow with fluff, poly-fill, stuffing or whatever you like to call it. You'll use about a whole [20oz] bag. Realize your photo looks like a mouth and make a face out of it... While you're stuffing it, make sure you get the fluff in the corners! Also be sure it's all evenly distributed; I like to hit the pillow to even it out. Lastly, thread a needle and start sewing the opening closed with a whipstitch. As the opening gets smaller, keep adding some more pillow stuffing to fill it up. When you're at the end of the opening, tie a couple knots and put the needle through your stitches and cut the end. Look, my macro lens comes in handy sometimes! Hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial/craft idea. Thank you so much Sonya for having me guest post!

4 kind words:

  1. AHH! Those are super adorable!

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  2. Wow, these are brillaint, and I have a ton of bandana's lying around. Thanks for the idea. What a brillaint guest post.

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  3. Too many bandannas? Psh! No such thing.

    http://ittybittyampersand.blogspot.com/

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