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felt flower pillow (a tutorial and a giveaway}

August 27, 2012 By burlap+blue

Hello there! I have a fun tutorial today for all you felt lovers…and a giveaway at the end of the post! If you love pillows and you love Target, you’re in for a treat!

First up….

My favorite thing about this pillow? The color combinations are endless! I debated endlessly about what color felt to use (gray? white?), but decided on the red for a bit of a festive look.

Materials:
felt (I used 7 8″x10″ pieces of felt for this…I could have easily used more, though)
scissors
pillow
hot glue

Step 1: Cut strips lengthwise from felt, approx. 1.5″ long.

Step 2: Take your strips, and cut slits along each length. I was able to cut through two at a time to save a bit of time. My tip? Watch a good movie while you are doing this-it doesn’t take that long, but it is a bit boring.

Step 3: Take one of your strips, and start rolling it up. Every few inches, use a drop of hot glue to help secure it.

Once you finish one piece, add another, attaching it with a bit of hot glue. After a few strips, you’ll have something that’ll look like this:

Keep going….and going, and going. When all your strips are together, you’ll have this:

Now, either stitch or hot glue it to your pillow form.
Need a quick and easy envelope pillow tutorial? Check out this one, by I {heart} naptime.

I already had a pillow lying around that I wasn’t using, so lots of hot glue was my method of choice (no surprise there).

Ta-da! I really love this pillow, and can think of so many variations that I’d love to try.

And now for the giveaway!!

Ok, I have a problem, y’all. I have waaay too many pillows lying around. So, I want to lighten my load by giving one away!

The winner can choose either the felt flower pillow above, or my shabby flower pillow. Both are in good condition and really could use a loving home:)

Plus, I’m giving away one of these….

A $30 Target gift card! Why? Because they really do have some ah-mazing pillows…and because I like ya;)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good Luck!

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shabby flower pillow (a tutorial)

March 14, 2011 By burlap+blue

Sometimes, ideas in my head don’t always turn out as planned. And sometimes, they turn out better….

After running across Sweet Jessie’s Scalloped Garland tutorial a few months ago, I wanted to take the same technique and use it to make a shabby, fun, linen pillow. Here’s how I did it:

Supplies Needed:
fabric (I used linen)
sewing machine
zipper (if desired)

Step 1:
Create your “petals”. I’ll explain the technique briefly, you can refer to the tutorial linked above if you need additional help.
Cut out a half-circle template out of cardstock. Place on a double layer of fabric and cut. Take your two layers of fabric and stitch around the curve.

Step 2: Take sew petals and turn inside out. Press flat. Take petals and arrange your first layer on your pillow fabric.

Step 3: Stitch petals down to fabric. Repeat for second layer of petals.

Step 4: Continue creating petals and attaching them to pillow front. I did 5 layers total, and, for layers 2-4, I cut down my template and made the petals slightly smaller. I then cut down the template further for the fifth and final layer.

Step 5: Almost there! Now you are ready to create your flower’s center. I did this by taking small circles of fabric and folding them once (into a half circle) and again (folding them into a cone shape). Either hot glue or sew your petals shut. Take your petals and hot glue them into a circle onto a small piece of fabric. Once your outer circle is complete, continue layering and working into the center of the circle.