Sometimes, after finishing the house repairs, you look around the roomlook and understand - everything seems to be good and beautiful, but something is missing. A bright spot that attracts attention, a catchy element that will decorate and revitalize the room, making it more cozy. Such an accessory can easily become a self-made interior pillows. Making them simple is easy!
Helpful Tips
Before you start, you should consider:
- Sewing a pillowcase for a pillow, you can combine the same thing with different designs.
- Before sewing a pillow, you need to decide for which room it is being prepared, and in what style it will be created (especially if you do not plan to replace the "clothes" for the pillow).
- Preparing for tailoring, you need to remember about the pattern.You can copy the finished one, but you can do it yourself. A medium-sized rectangular pillow should be approximately 120 cm wide and half as tall (of course, these numbers can be any other). It is very important not to forget to make an allowance of several centimeters on each side - for bending.
- Fabric for interior cushions is best to take more tightly - for upholstery furniture, for example. Also perfectly suited jeans, felt, fleece. Sometimes they use knitwear, but it is extremely unpredictable and capricious.
- You can stuff a pillow with a holofiber or a synthon. Vatu is best not to take - the pillow instantly loses its shape.
- Original pillows can be sewn from old clothes, which is a pity to throw.
- By combining several different fabrics, you must always make sure that the stretch (stretch) is not connected with not stretching.
- An unusual effect is obtained if you embroider a pattern on the cushion with thin and thick threads for knitting.
- If the pillow is supposed to sleep, the material for its padding should be hypoallergenic.
Interior styles
Interior pillows can decorate anydesign, but, as a rule, they are most often used in rooms with a retro style, in children's rooms, in rooms in the style of Provence or cheby chic. About the latter I want to talk a little more in detail - certainly not everyone knows what kind of "beast" is.
Shebbie chic
Shebbie chic style, suitable for romanticnatures, was born in England. It is for this style of cushion fit, as for any other. A similar design is chosen by gentle, refined, feminine natures. This is what is meant to emphasize the interior pillows. For the style of cheby chic characterized by the use of pastel tones, vintage details, romantic accessories, a large number of hand-made. This means that the pillows created by their own hands will come in handy here.
What is needed?
Nothing supernatural is required, but only:
- the cloth;
- pattern;
- a needle with threads;
- lightning;
- details for decoration;
- sewing machine.
However, the latter is far from necessary, you can sew the pillow manually.
How to sew interior pillows with your own hands?
Patterns, as already mentioned, you can createyourself. Once again: in the creation of pillows there is nothing complicated. Pattern must be transferred to the fabric, armed with patience and forward. There are a lot of options for making pillows. After all, they are not only square and rectangular, but also unusual shapes, for example, in the form of animals, flowers, letters, houses, puzzles.
Interior pillows of old clothes
If there was an old T-shirt in the house, whichlike no one wears, and it's a pity to throw it away; you can give her a second life by sewing a pillow from her. Make it easy. Having decided on the size of the future product, it is necessary to cut off the extra part from the bottom of the T-shirt. Then hem the place of the cut and sew there zipper. Sew through the sleeves and neck, turn the T-shirt inside out and fill with filler. It only remains to fasten the zipper and decorate the pillow at will.
In addition to T-shirts, they are perfect for creating interior pillows and old sweaters, shirts, dresses. In this case, you can make a pillow with both sleeves and throat, and without them.
Pillows toys
If you need to decorate a child's room, the bestoption, of course, will be children's interior pillows-toys. They perform a triple function at once: they revitalize the interior, and are a toy for the baby, and allow him to sleep on them. There are a lot of toy pillows, for example, in the form of letters. Similar products, in addition to the above options, will allow the child at the same time to learn the alphabet. Interior pillows-cats are very popular. They can be done in different poses - recumbent, sessile, hanging, with a face or turned back. There are lots of variants, patterns too.
Very unusual toy pillows arepajamas pillows. This is also a kind of pillow doll, but not quite. It is a doll in pajamas (or dress), in which the handles and head are soft, stuffed with filler, and there is nothing under the pajamas / dress. At the same time there you can put something in its sole discretion, for example, the same small duma.
What to decorate?
The issue of decor is the largest scope for the flight of fantasy. You can decorate your product with anything, as your heart prompts.
Puff decoration
One of the most popular decorating techniquesinterior pillows - puff decoration. What it is? Puffs - this is nothing like ordinary drapery fabric in the form of folds. These folds are made in such a way that they are voluminous and fluffy. There are special techniques of how to properly perform puffs. They should be at equal distance from each other in parallel rows. Pre-fabric must be marked with a special marker - put points on which you can later navigate. To create beautiful figured puffs is absolutely not difficult and for everyone. However, we must remember that this exercise is quite long, and therefore requires assiduity and time.
Silk or gabardine can become a material for puffs, and it is permissible to connect the folds with each other using beads or rhinestones matched in color.
Embroidery ribbons
Another great way to decorate handproduct (especially large interior cushions) - trim ribbons. It became popular among women of fashion in the 18th century. Then in such a way mostly clothes were decorated. This method is supported by its lightness and speed. To trim a pillow with ribbons much faster than puffs, for example.
There are two ways of embroidery ribbons:insert the ribbon into the needle and sew as if with threads, or roll out the necessary decoration (ribbon, flower, etc.) from the ribbon, and then sew it to the clothes. It is very important to choose the right materials - they should be easily bent and wrapped. Fabric tapes can be any: from velvet to silk (the last option - the traditional).
Knitted pillows
Crochet looks very stylish and unusualinterior cushions. Moreover, they are very pleasant to touch - they are so soft and warm to the touch. Therefore, for all the “skillful hands” in terms of knitting, such a pillow is simply an irreplaceable option. And if you do not want to knit a whole pillow, you can knit a beautiful openwork napkin and decorate the pillow with it. It will also be very original.
Other ideas
About all sorts of applications it was already underway.It is only necessary to note that they can be both sewn and glued to the fabric. It is also permissible to decorate interior cushions with various patches in the patchwork style - a combination of different fabrics of different colors, sizes, shapes in the form of a mosaic. Looks like this very unusual and interesting.
If the task is to emphasize tenderness,romance of the room (especially in the style of chebbi chic), then the best option would be to decorate the pillow with fabric flowers. The tones do not necessarily have to be pastel, you can pick up and bright shades.
Having bought acrylic paints for fabric, you can createThis masterpiece, which is absolutely even close to no one will. And it is not necessary for this to be able to draw well. The main thing - to be the owner of a rich imagination. By the way, special art stencils can also be purchased at art stores - that’s really if your hands aren’t growing up.
