Cushions with their own hands

Cushion sofa - this is the subject of the interior, without which you can do without, but then the room will not be so cozy and beautiful. Perhaps, the absence of sofa cushions can be noticed only by a woman, she also seeks that the house is warm and cozy.

You can make a decorative pillow yourself, because it's so interesting and exciting! This lesson will not only lift the mood and brighten up the boring winter evenings, but will save you money, because you can make a pillow from the materials that are found in every house.

Let's start with simple ideas - decor sofa cushions. There are hundreds of options with which you can easily realize even the most daring ideas. On some ideas, you will need much more time. For example, if you want to decorate cushions with ribbons, beads or make crocheted crochet, then for this you will have to spend not only a lot of time, but also in parallel to learn an unfamiliar decoration technique.

Decor pillows with their own hands

Do you have a pair of sofa cushions boring colors? To revitalize this object of decor you will be helped by usual buttons. Take a pillow, a needle and a thread and a handful of colored buttons. Sewing buttons can be both chaotic, and with a specific purpose. The buttons of dark shades on a light pillowcase will look good, and vice versa. Bright buttons will be combined with any shades of the pillow, the main thing is that a beautiful pattern is selected.

Buttons for cushions

You can "lay out" your own pattern from buttons, you can embroider your name, surname, funny face or flower. Beautifully looks a button-decorated pillow in the form of a frame or heart. And you can generally "wrap" a pillow in any pillowcase and fasten it to bright big buttons. Look how many different pillows can be made with the usual buttons:

If you have an idea to combine two materials and instead of boring sewing buttons to diversify the canvas, prepare several different colored scraps. Let them be different in texture and color, the more diverse the shreds, the more interesting will be the face of the pillow.

For work, prepare:

• 10-15 different shreds;
• scissors;
• needle and thread;
• colored buttons.

How to make a sofa cushion decor:

1. First, prepare the fabric. It should be cut into the same "penny", the size you choose at your discretion. If the diameter of one circle will be 5-7 centimeters, then you will have a small flower, and if 10-15, then it is enough to sew a small amount of multicolored patches.
2. We need circles of two diameters - for the flower itself and for the middle.
3. To make a flower out of pieces of an unnecessary fabric, use a needle and a thread to assemble the fabric so that you do not have threads on the front side. Sew all the edges of the fabric from the wrong side.
4. From above on each flower insert a middle and sew a button. One decorative element is ready. By the same principle, make about 10-20 colors, and then sew them on a cushion pillow case arbitrarily or adhering to a certain ornament.

You should get this cute pillow:

You can not only decorate sofa cushions, but you can also sew a cushion of your own size, and it can be a non-standard square shape. Try sewing a sofa cushion with your own hands from an old T-shirt or men's shirt. With the first option, even a beginner can cope, as a knitted T-shirt is a practically ready pillow.

For work you will need:

• knitted t-shirt with a short sleeve, preferably in stripes, peas or a flower. You can choose a one-color T-shirt;
• scissors;
• filler for pillow;
• zipper;
• sewing machine( or needle and thread);
• buttons.

How to make a pillow with your own hands:

1. We will need to cut the bottom. How much - it will depend on the desired size of the cushion and the original size of the T-shirt. If you have a teenage T-shirt, then you do not need to cut anything at all. If the shirt is long, then cut off the excess and sew the bottom.
2. To the bottom, we sew a zipper and stitch it on the machine.
3. Sleeves also need to be stitched.
4. It remains to turn our workpiece inside out and fill it with sintepon.
5. When this part of the work is done, you can sew on the buttons and zip.

Everything, our unusual pillow with "ears" is ready! You can add a few stylish items and from an ordinary T-shirt will get an original decorative pillow for a teenager.

Tapes for cushions

Decor sofa cushions can be made using conventional satin ribbons, and you can take both thin and wide ribbons. Well combined with a wide satin stripes with thin velvet ribbons.

With the help of embroidery ribbons, you can make an original inscription, embroider patterns or flowers from ribbons or simply wrap it with a wide ribbon of pillow and from above make a rose from a fabric or a wide ribbon. Such an original gift can be presented on Valentine's Day, by March 8 or by any other date.

You can make an interesting pillowcase on a sofa cushion made of satin ribbons - take multi-colored ribbons and place them on a pillowcase. You can bind ribbons of several colors among themselves, this technique is called - weaving with ribbons. To make a beautiful pillow, first determine the color scheme to buy the right set of tapes. To navigate with shades, pay attention to your interior, perhaps it lacks bright colors or it is worth repeating one or two colors again.

What else is needed for the pillow:

• multi-colored satin ribbons;
• cotton lining;
• cushion back - any neutral fabric;
• thread in tone;
• scissors;
• pins;
• sewing machine.

Before you start the most critical moment and completely immerse yourself in the work, you need to think about the color and size of the tapes. You can use a single-width tape or select several multi-colored stripes with a width of 1 to 4 centimeters.

For you to work comfortably, prepare a table or other surface with a soft coating( foam or cork is suitable).On such a movable surface it will be convenient to fasten pin pins. If nothing suitable was found, cover the sofa with a light monophonic cloth( you can use a sheet) and work on it.

Master cushion making class:

1. Make a workpiece of fabric of suitable size. This will be our lining. The standard size of the pillowcase is 50 by 50 centimeters, but you can sew a pillow of other sizes.
2. Now you need to prepare the tapes: iron each tape( at low temperature).
3. Immediately cut the ribbons so that they are the same length.
4. Next, you need to lay out the tapes in a predefined order. If you do not stick to a geometric pattern, then let the bands be random.
5. Now open the box with pins and keep them close. Lay out the tape and pin it on top. The lower edges of the tape should remain free.
6. And now the most interesting. Tapes need to be lifted and pass one tape through the other. Look at the picture to see how it's done. In the process of work, you will immediately see a combination of shades. If you see that these shades are not suitable, you can initially remove these tapes and change them to others.

1. Each tape at the end must be secured with a pin. Begin to work from the left edge, and then weave the right one.
2. Thus, "dopletite" to the end and secure the tape with pins. Extra edges can be cut.
3. Now you need to stitch along the edge of the workpiece and tape. In order to work more carefully, it is better to pre-tape the lining to the lining with large stitches.
4. Now you need to sew the next pillowcase and attach the ribbons to the lining. The second part of the pillowcase - the back sewing of the two blanks is overlapped.
5. To create a single style and repeat the decorative element in the cushion, sew two ribbons to the back instead of the usual buttons or zippers. Tie them with a "bow".

It remains to turn inside out the finished pillowcase and put it on the pillow.

Patterns of cushions

If you are new to the sewing business and only recently purchased a sewing machine, then it is better to begin to learn this art gradually, from simple to complex. Just you can sew a sofa cushion. In order for you to get a good pillow, it's better to use a ready-made pattern.

What cushions can be made, look at the photo:

Decorative cushions with their own hands

What could be easier than sewing a pillowcase from old clothes? Your favorite jeans have become small or have long been out of fashion? Do not get upset, they can sew an excellent sofa cushion. Pillows of shirts, old jeans or sweaters will look very stylish and decorate your interior. To make an individual and unique sofa cushion, it is enough to spend quite a bit of effort and time. In this case, the main thing is to be able to make a smooth seam on the sewing machine.

A knitted pillow made of old sweaters will look very nice and cozy. In addition, you can use old scarves, and even stoles. You will need a minimum of time. Wash the sweater beforehand and dry it.

Place it on a horizontal surface. Cut the neck and sleeves. Now put the pillow to the edge of the sweater, so you "save" on one seam. You will need to make no longer 4, but only 3 seams. Cut out a square or rectangle of the right size and just stitch it from the wrong side of the edge on the sewing machine. That's all, a beautiful pillow is ready. If you do not have a suitable pillow, then it is not difficult to make it yourself from a piece of the same old sheet or a man's shirt. Fill the pillow with any filler: sintepon, buckwheat husks or a feather.

How to sew the basis for the cushion

Decorative pillow case can be different, but if there is no basis - it will have to sew it yourself. First, choose the right material, it can be a fabric for napernikov or any other dense fabric. Suitable linen, velvet and even silk. Of course, you can sew a sofa cushion from a new fabric, but when there are a lot of unnecessary things at home, why waste extra money.

It is also necessary to think about the filler material in advance. They can be sintepon( from an old knocked-down blanket, or an old children's jacket).You can also use fluff, silicone or old yarn as a filler. The most important rule is that the pillow should keep the shape and not crumple in the "pancake".

Pattern can be made independently and in size. The main thing that you need to observe, to the finished size( for example, 40x40 centimeters), you need to add 2-3 cm to the seams. The edges are hand-worked or manually.

How to sew a pillow:

1. Fold the fabric face down and sew both parts together. For the seam to be strong, make it double.
2. First, three sides are stitched, and the fourth is not completely sewn. It is necessary to leave 10 centimeters for the filler.
3. The pillow needs to be turned out and put inside the "stuffing".Now the hole can be sewn.

The blank for the sofa cushion is ready, it remains to sew a decorative pillowcase and decorate your interior.