Welcome to another Trashtastic Tuesday! Last week, I showed you how I made a sweet Valentine holder out of a cereal box. So cute! Today I want to show the pillow I made!
If you have been reading my blog, you might remember This post about an old pillow and sweater I purchased at Goodwill. You can click on the link, but here is a picture of them from the post.
Now, I don’t sew a lick. I mean not even a button. My goal is to learn. Anyway, I was bound and determined to make a pillow out of this old sweater. I vowed in my post to have it done before spring. On Friday night, I got a wild hair and decided to just do it, like the Nike adds. I decided a hot glue gun might work. So I got busy all up in this joint! And I am pretty happy with the results! The following picture was taken on my Iphone so it looks a little shady.
Above is an instagram picture I posted as soon as I finished it as a sneak peek. I am going to try to explain how I did it, but basically, I made it up as I went along. Basically, I slipped the sweater over the pillow so that the sides seams matched up with the ones on the pillow. As luck would have it, it was a perfect fit! This pillow cover is not removeable, BTW, (it’s that whole non sewing thing). I liked the way the stripe at the waistline looked at the bottom of the pillow, so I decided to keep it at the bottom. Then I just folded everything tightly towards the back and started cutting off the excess. You can see in the picture below some of the pieces I cut off. First I cut off the sleeves. You can see there is a square place cut out at the armpit of each sleeve. That was so that I could fold it as neatly as possible. Next, I cut off the excess at the top of the sweater.
This is what the pillow looked like after I cut off all of the excess. I then folded the top part of the front of the sweater down into the back part of the pillow. Next, I took the edge where I had cut on the top back part of the sweater and glued a hem to get rid of the raw edges. After that I just folded it tightly over everything else and glued it together! Voila! A sweater pillow!
This is a close up shot of the excess.
Next, I just simply hot glued the edges of the bottom of the sweater right along the bottom of the pillow. I started by hot glueing the top edge to the actual pillow, then I hot glued the other edge to the part that I had already glued to the pillow.
This is a shot of what it looked like after I finished that part. There were a couple of puckers, but it really isn’t noticeable once you have the pillow sitting up.
Here are a couple of shot of the pillow, the finished product. Not bad for a girl who can’t sew, eh?
I like your idea and the pillow!!!
Thank you! Thanks for visiting my blog!
Girl you better Rock on with that pillow! thats so cute. You will have me "glue Gunning" every nice print I see into a pillow. YOu know I have a pillow addiction. Thanks for shariing!
Sharon, You made me laugh! Thank you!
Excellent idea!Now i know waht to do with our old sweat shirts.