Would you like an easy, inexpensive way to bring each holiday into your home? If you've ever wrapped a present, you can craft this idea. Get ready to decorate a room by wrapping a pillow.
Even though it is meant to be a quick, reusable idea, it can change the entire look of a room if several pillows of varying sizes are decorated in this way.
MATERIALS:
1. A decorator pillow (new or used)
2. Fabric (holiday or seasonal) enough to cover the pillow, envelope style
3. Cording or Braiding to trim completely around the edge of the pillow.
4. Embellishments
5. Glue gun and glue sticks or craft glue
6. Needle and Thread or Velcro strips or dots
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Place the pillow in the center of the wrong side of the fabric and fold all sides to the front center of the pillow. If you have to, tuck the edges in tightly and create an "envelope"-fold-over.
2) Glue or sew this flap onto the fabric to "seal" the new covering of the pillow.
NOTE:
If you're using Velcro, attach the strips/dots of the Velcro to the underside of this fold-over flap and the opposite pieces of the strips/dots to the fabric beneath this fold-over flap. Velcro can be attached by gluing.
3) Decorate the pillow by gluing any embellishments onto the side of the pillow that you wish to use as the "viewed" side. If the folding has been done neatly, you can glue embellishments onto the center of the fold-over area to cover how you "sealed" the covering. (covering the stitches or any visible glue)
NOTE:
When each holiday is over, simply remove the pillow covering and replace with a covering material that is suitable for the next holiday or season. For example, when Christmas is over, do the same with a fabric and embellishments that would be suited for New Year's. To decorate the pillow again, cut the stitching, or cut around the fold-over area and remove the fabric from the pillow. Then, re-cover the pillow with the next fabric. Save the removed fabric to either use on a pillow again the following year, or use on smaller craft ideas.
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