How to sew a pillow from foam rubber?

Nowadays, sleeping accessories are quite expensive. Therefore, many are taken for their self-production, because in this case, you can not only save, but at your discretion to decorate the interior, make it individual with inexpensive and simple means. Considering the photo of self-made pillows, for example, you might think that for their tailoring you need a lot of experience or inborn skills. In fact, everything is much simpler. This article will help you with this, you will overcome all your fears, and as a result you will get a posh pillow. You will need a minimum of time, effort, tools to understand how to sew a pillow from foam rubber, and realize this idea.

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What materials and tools are needed for making pillows?

Find interesting models of interior pillows that can decorate any house, decorated in any style is easy. Below you will be offered a selection of the most successful options for how to sew a pillow from foam rubber. But first you should take care of preparing everything that you might need in the process of doing the work. Now more.

Cloth

Undoubtedly, what can be more important than cloth. In the case of home cushions, there are no special restrictions on the choice of fabric, most importantly - to make it convenient for you to work with it, the finished product looked spectacular. Therefore, the imagination should be included to the maximum.

Suitable for this material used for upholstery furniture, for example:

• cotton and linen;
• felt;
• canvas or denim fabric.

You can also use fur with a short or long pile.

Important! It is advisable to treat jersey. Decorative pillows sew even from old clothes.

Packing

Filling the cushion with cotton is not recommended, because it quickly gets bogged down. Excellent sintepon, but over time it decreases in volume, in particular, when products are not used for their intended purpose.

Optimum option - synthetic fluff or fibertec. These materials are unique because:

• does not get bogged down;
• does not cake;
• does not cause allergies;
• even after washing restore the usual splendor and volume.

Buy them at any fabric store. Naturally, we will need another foam, which is sold in building stores and can have different thicknesses.

Decor

The choice of decor depends on the flight of your imagination. Ready-made decorations for decorating homemade pillows are mass, so feel free to choose:

• Ribbons, ribbons, buttons, laces, buckles, sequins, laces, zippers are often used today as accessories.
• Some details for decoration can be made by yourself, for example, making of a fabric bows, appliques, even bulk flowers.
• Special acrylic paints for fabrics are also used for decoration.

Threads

Be sure to prepare threads for tailoring, clearly selected according to the thickness and color of the base material. In addition, you may also need a thread for knitting or floss to make decorative details or stitches by hand.

Tools

Where without them. Prepare:

• needles;
• scissors;
• marker;
• pencil;
• handle;
• paper for building a pattern.

Important! If you knit some elements, you will need knitting needles or a hook. If you use embroidery, you will also need special tools. It is desirable to find a sewing machine.

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Ideas for making pillows with your own hands

Now we turn to the most important, that is, the process of making decorative pillows. They can have a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, textures. We will give you several options on how to make a foam pillow, you will only have to choose the most successful one.

Pillow-heart

It will look incredibly original, gentle, stylish. The pillow itself is the most common, made of two halves of a square shape. The most important thing here is the decoration:

1. It is necessary to cut out circles from the fabric. It is very important that it does not crumble, because the edges will not be processed.
2. Then wrap one circle around the other to end up with a flower.
3. At the base, fasten the creases with thread.
4. When the desired number of colors is ready, you can lay out the heart on the pillow from the contour, gradually filling it completely inside.
5. It remains only to fluff flowers with their hands.

Important! Flowers fasten as tightly as possible so that the heart is thick and thick.

Pillow-roller

This pillow made of foam rubber, made with your own hands with all tenderness, care, love, will help you relax, relax, truly decorate your house, diluting it with oriental notes.

The manufacturing scheme of this product includes three important steps:

1. The first stage is a roller. Take pieces of foam rubber, carefully roll them, sew together on the long side, using a thick dense thread. Or you can form a piece of hollow cylinder from the pieces, inside fill it with woolen products.
2. The second stage is a cover. The main thing is that it should sit tightly on the roller, so it is recommended to make it a little smaller in size. Measure the length and width of the roller, add to these values ​​a few centimeters on the seam. As a result - you will get a pattern, which must be folded in half and along, so that the front side is inside. On each edge make a line, but that the middle remained open. Then it will be lightning. Turn out the finished cover, sew to it a tight lace or decorative braid.
3. The third stage is the end parts. It is necessary specially for them to cut out several strips of fabric, adding one and a half centimeters to the allowances. The length of the strip should correspond to the circumference of the roller, along the width of the radius of this circle. Then you should connect short ends and staple. To the cover, sweep the ends, then sew them. Sewing should be as tight as possible to the braid. It remains only to bend and flush the rough edges, put cords and ribbons in the culis. We put the platen into the cover, tighten the ribbon on the sides. You can sew on decorations on your own.

Bright pillow on the floor

This product will serve you for many years with faith and truth. It is the floor cushions that are especially popular today, because they not only decorate the interiors, but also use them for sitting.

A comfortable cushion can be sewn from triangular fabric sectors. It is important that all sectors are made of the same material, but in different shades:

1. It is necessary to cut out the required number of triangles from the fabric, cut off the corners in them so that the finished product is more voluminous.
2. Then the sectors are stitched from all sides, both sides are connected face to face. The main thing - do not forget to leave the holes for packing.
3. It remains the cover to unscrew, fill with prepared filler, sew the hole.

Everything, you can sit on the pillow!

Inspire, create, fantasize on health! By the way, do not try to make such pillows, as you saw somewhere in the picture, it is better to implement each idea in their own way, so that the product turned out to be unique.