pb inspired pillows

YAY!  i'm back! 

at least for one project post anyway.

my apologizes for being gone a whole 13 DAYS!

i sorta got sucked into a sewing black hole.

sorry.

needless to say after a lot of hair pulling and screaming humming and singing

i survived my first two sewing projects.

one of which i will SeW you today...

lol

:D

ok, enough of that! on to the project!

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my pottery barn (pb) inspired pillows using...

cloth NAPKINS

yep, you heard right i made these pillows with 

20 X 20 cloth napkins!

ridiculous right?!

and sEw :) very easy!!!

i loved these pillows the first time i saw them

original pb pillow

and thought surely i could make those, right?!

and save...i dunno a small fortune!

yep, i saved a fortune alright...

and in case your wondering how i went about it

i've got a long quick tutorial just for you....

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i took two of my four napkins (for this project i only needed four napkins because i had some of the same fabric left over from a table cloth project that i have yet to blog about, but if you would like to try this i would suggest having at least 6 napkins to ensure enough length for the envelope fold).

measure and cut down to the size of your pillow if needed. 

my pillows were 18" square so i had to do a little trimming.

then i had to decided where I wanted my opening to be

and how much over lap i needed.

so the total length of my top piece is 22"

once i made my cuts i put a hem on the top and bottom pieces

and then pinned everything together inside-out to stitch all my edges

once everything was stitched i trimmed my corners on an angle

and turned everything right side out and inserted my pillow

that i grabbed from joann's.

then i started working on my button loops.

i did a little improvising here and just used fabric glue, but you could always follow

this tutorial i found here if you want to stitch them.

once the button loop and button were attached

my project was complete! 

 i'm very pleased with the end result

and the best part...

my pillows only cost me a whooping 

$7 ea instead of $25 ea (and that only includes the cover!)

happy sewing!

*linking to a few favorite parties this week*

until tomorrow,