How to fill the pillow with your own hands?

Everyone wants his home to be the most beautiful and comfortable. It is not difficult to create comfort in an apartment if you have the right tools and materials at hand. You can decorate a room with various elements, from small trinkets to homemade decorative pillows. The main thing is to find how to fill the pillow with your own hands, so that it is soft to sit or sleep on. Now pillows are used not only for sleeping, but also for completing interior design. They are scattered in a chaotic manner, even hung on walls and shelves, giving the room a bright and colorful look.

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Fillers for decorative pillows: the basis for beauty and health

What are pillows made of, what should be the filling? Before you start creating your own unique designer pillow, you need to decide how we will fill it with our own hands. When choosing a “filling” for a decorative element, it is worth considering several important criteria that affect not only the beauty of the room, but also human health:

• Hypoallergenic material.
• The “filling” must not be deformed by mechanical movements. It must be elastic.
• Filler should choose medium softness.
• When washing, the pillow should remain the same as in the original form.
• You should choose a material that is easy to wash.

If you adhere to these rules, then the pillow can be used not only as a decoration, but also for its intended purpose.

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How to stuff a pillow?

How and how to fill a podushka? Many needlewomen stuff pillows with cotton, but when they are used, they very quickly lose their presentation, because cotton is a very fragile material and quickly rolls into hard balls. Thus, the product very quickly loses its shape.

Important! If you still decide to stuff the pillow with cotton, then use it only as a decorating element.

Making a pillow filler with your own hands is very simple:

• You can use pieces of soft cloth or fur. If you fill the product with such materials, then it is perfect as a floor design decoration.
• Also at home, you can fill the pillow with syntepon, foam rubber or holofiber. These materials are easy to find in any hardware store.
• If you have many young children in your house, then small silicone balls are used as a filler for a decorative pillow.

Important! A child, playing with such a pillow, develops fine motor skills, arms, respectively - speech. Thus, it is possible to “kill two birds with one stone” - to entertain the child and transform the room.Interested in this idea? Then do not put it off for later. Read right now how to make an anti-stress pillow with balls yourself.

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How to choose the right fabric?

To choose fabric for such decorative products follows two main criteria - strength and beauty:

• The strength of the material plays a huge role in the life of the pillow. The stronger the fabric, the longer it will remain beautiful and not spoiled.
• The choice of material from which the covers will be sewn on products also depends on the color scheme of the interior of the room. The fabric does not have to be color to color with a sofa or wallpaper.It should be combined with their shade.

Important! If you choose the right color for the material, you can create a very contrasting room design.

In order to sew a pillowcase for a pillow, you can choose absolutely any material you like. Consider the main types of fabric that are suitable for this purpose:

• Cotton or linen.
• Silk.
• Fleece.
• Canvas.

Important! Needlewomen use old clothes to decorate pillows (jeans or woolen clothes). It looks very original and unusual. And also from absolutely any materials, having thought over the preliminary design and following step by step our instructions from the article here, you can make the original DIY smile pillows.

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Form and fillers in different rooms

To date, you can find a lot of options, deciding what is the best form to sew a pillow? Basically, the shape of the product depends on the interior and on the furniture. Let's consider some interesting ideas of such decorative elements:

1. Cushions Now it has become very fashionable to buy sofas without backs. Instead, there are sofa cushions, which are much more convenient than a traditional sofa back. Over time, they get bored, but they are easy to update if you sew a few bright pillowcases. Such products may be rectangular or oval. Look great on the couch in the living room.
2. Rollers. These products are very convenient as a footrest after a hard working day. They can be made in the form of candy, pencil or in a classic style. Such pads are often found in a car. Read in more detail on another page of our site that how to sew a pillow-roller do it yourself. We offer many patterns for various models and step-by-step instructions for sewing.
3. A toy. When creating such a pillow, you can give free rein to fantasy and sew anyone - a cat, a dog, a pig, etc. They perfectly complement the design of the children's room, it is also very comfortable to sleep on them if you choose a quality filler.
4. Letters. One of the most original options, as it can be used not only for oneself, but also presented for a birthday or some other holiday. Such products are often used only as a decoration.

Important! No matter what shape you prefer, if you add originality, you get a unique decorative detail for your home.

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How to sew a pillow on a sofa with your own hands: ideas and technology

On the Internet you can find a lot of information and workshops related to this topic. Consider some original ideas for making pillows with your own hands.

Plain rectangular cushion

In order to sew it, you will need:

• Cotton fabric.
• Filler (synthetic winterizer or holofiber).
• Scissors.
• Sewing machine.
• Ribbons, buttons.

We begin to create:

1. Cut four symmetrical pieces of cotton material.
2. We sew them on the sewing machine, leaving one part unstitched. Be sure to sew the wrong sides of the fabric.
3. We fill the base with the filler, having previously turned it on the front side.
4. Using a sewing machine, sew a hole for stuffing.
5. We decorate the pillow with buttons and ribbons from bows.

Important! With the help of buttons, you can make eyes, and use ribbons from organza to make locks of hair and sponges.

We sew volume letters

You will need the following tools and materials:

• Cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Pencil.
• The cloth.
• Sewing machine or needle with thread.
• Filler.

Important! You can sew toy animals on the same principle, having previously prepared a pattern and decorating details.

Getting started:

1. On a cardboard sheet we write a letter and cut it out with scissors.
2. The resulting stencil is applied to the fabric and cut out two identical parts.
3. We sew them manually or on a sewing machine from the wrong side, leaving a hole for stuffing.
4. We fill the finished product base with filler.
5. We sew a hole for stuffing.

Important! You can decorate the pillow with beautiful embroidery, beads or ribbon bows.

Read another separate post on how to stitch do-it-yourself floor pillows. The proposed workshops are extremely simple.

Patch of fabric scraps

Sewing it is a little more difficult than the previous options. For the creative process you will need:

• • • Scissors.
    • Multi-colored fabric shreds.
    • Sewing machine.
    • Filler for pillows.

We begin to create:

• • 1. Sew shreds of fabric with each other (four symmetrical pieces of shreds will be needed).
    2. The resulting pieces are stitched together with the wrong side, leaving room for filler.
    3. We turn the base and stuff with foam rubber or synthetic winterizer.
    4. We sew a hole for the filler.
    5. We decorate the pillow with small bows of satin ribbons at the junction of the shreds (preferably in the corners).

Important! Such a decorative element will look very beautiful in the kitchen or in the living room.

If a replenishment is expected in your family, then the question of buying various necessary things and items is probably already a question. Try to use our workshops, which are suitable even for beginner needlewomen to save and sew good quality. DIY pillow for a newborn.

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Making a pillow with your own hands is not so difficult if you have patience and all the necessary tools. And if you look at a few video tutorials, the creative process can take a maximum of an hour.