Hello Everybody!
Thank you for visiting with me today!
A while ago I had the privilege to visit one of my favorite blogs,
UCreate and share with Kari and her readers one of my favorite projects:
How to turn a regular king size pillow into two throw pillow inserts.
This is a perfect little project to recycle old pillows or to save good money specially on down throw pillows,
since you can pay anywhere between $25 and $50 for just one insert.
MATERIALS
Basically all you’ll need is a king size pillow, scissors, pins and a sewing machine.
TIP: You can purchase super affordable pillows at your local HomeGoods Stores or TJMax.
You can buy two king size pillows and make four down pillows for about $20… That is a good deal!
TUTORIAL
1
First using scissors cut your pillow right in half.
Nothing fancy!
2
Push the filling of your pillow in with your hands as much as you can.
3
Keep the filling inside of the case and out of the way pining the fabric together.
You want to have at least a 2.5″ piece of empty fabric to work with for the next step.
After the pinning it should look like this…
4
Close to the edge of the fabric, seal the pillow together.
More space you leave to work with… easier the sewing will be.
5
Remove your pins and distribute the filling evenly again with your hands.
Make it puffy!
You are done!
I do this all the time!
It saves me a lot of money and I can get high quality pillow inserts for a fraction of the cost.
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Have a great day everybody!
Desirée.
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I love it!! I’m too cheap to buy pillow forms and this is the perfect solution!
GREAT idea! 🙂
It is SO crazy that you posted this. After I spent $30.00 on inserts at Hobby Lobby, on the drive home I thought there has to be a cheaper way… you can get regular pillows for $3.00!!! Then I see this, wish I would have seen it a littttle bit sooner, but that’s ok. Thanks for the tut!
Quite a handy tip! Thanks so much. I am pinning it to use it at some time in the future. Have a great day!
Wow. what a simple, yet PERFECTLY AMAZING idea!!! thanks!
what a great idea!!! I love this – thanks for sharing it 🙂
Thanks so much for the heads up Desiree… this will save a lot of money!
Great project!
Susan
this is an OMG brillant moment, I can do this!
Goodness me! What a clever idea!
Thanks Desiree!
I am saying to myself right now, “DUH!!!”. Why haven’t I thought of this? Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Hahaha! … and I am saying to myself what are we doing awake? 😉
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