Pink Pleated Pillow Tutorial

Okay... so you know how you have an idea, but you're not really quite sure how you're going to execute it... well... THIS was one of those kids of projects. lol.

I had this extra material left, from making my shower curtain extension... and wanted to make a pillow, but the form I had was square... and I just had this long piece of pink fabric left...

I had seen a pleated pillow in one of my favorite fabric stores a while back, and then also remembered seeing a really cute one on V and Co.  too...

She actually sells her patterns! You can buy this one HERE

So I was off to try my hand at one  :)

I cut my long piece of fabric into three sections.

like so.

About the size of my pillow form, plus half.

Then free handed a ruffle on either side of the large piece of fabric

It looked like this after I was done.

Kinda billowy and full

Then I kinda pleated/folded the fabric to fit onto another square piece of fabric, the size of my pillow

I sewed up one side of the pleat onto the pillow sized piece... like so.

Here it is with ONE side done... so you can see what I mean.

( I don't know if you can see it, but the pillow sized piece of fabric is pieced together too.  You'll never see it, so it doesn't matter)

Then I sewed the other side of the pleated fabric onto the square pillow form, and flipped it right side out!

So it now looked like this!

I knew I wanted to make a "slip in back" (what is that really called? lol) for this pillow...

So I measured out some white fabric a little larger than my pillow form, cut it into two pieces...

And sewed a seam up each exposed side... and then sewed down a bit on the bottom and top, to keep it together... but still left an opening for the pillow to go into.

Then I attached the whole piece to the pleated piece...

And flipped it right side out!

Insert pillow...and you're done!

WHEW!

After that I took a needle and thread and attached the cute singed flowers that I did.

There you go!

So cute right?  And a little bit different!  I love it!

This wasn't the EASIEST project ever... but it's ME and a sewing machine... so I KNOW that ANYONE can do it :)

It's all straight sewing... it just takes a little bit of thinking and time. :)

PS... once again, if you actually KNOW how to sew well... then please turn your head at this tutorial. :)

I'm just workin' with what I've got. LOL