Sparkle Clause & the 12 Crafts of Christmas: #7, Ornament Pillow

As you've already seen from me, pillows are a great way to change the look of a room.  Christmas pillows are no different and because it's the holidays you can get a little crazy-cooky with them!  This particular pillow that I did was so easy!  It's not a cover, just a holiday pillow but minimal sewing and lots of hot glue is involved! Ornaments are not just for trees, cuddle up with them too!

You will need:

-Scrap fabric

- Ribbons

-Buttons

- Glitter puffy paint (optional)

-Hot glue gun or fabric glue

-Needle & thread, or sewing machine

- Pillow stuffing

1. Decide the size of your pillow, it can be square or rectangle, as long as you have a front and back that line up. The front of mine is linen and the back is just a solid red.

2. Cut out your scrap fabric ornament shapes. Decide where on the pillow you'd like to place them then place different lengths and colors of ribbon at their tops like pictured.  I also added little bows and buttons for extra flair!

3. Glue all the ornament and ribbon pieces down really well!  If you are so inclined (and talented) you may sew them down too, but I ain't got time for 'dat.

4. Now that your ornaments are glued down really well, place the front sides of the front and back pieces together (this means when you sew the ornaments will be on the inside).  Sew 3 sides together, but only sew a portion of the 4th side to leave an opening for the pillow stuffing. When done, flip it right-side out through the stuffing hole.

5. Stuff it, stuff it real good!  Get your inside corners first really well then fill in the rest of the inside.  You want it to feel like there may be a little too much, but once you have the hole closed, the stuffing will spread out evenly.

6. Sew it closed.  Many prefer to do this part by hand with a slip stitch, but I just tuck the raw edges in and pin like shown above.  Then use my sewing machine to close it up.  This is on the bottom of my pillow so it's not really noticeable when propped up on my sofa.

7. Lastly (and optionally) I used glitter puffy paint around all the raw edges of my ornaments to prevent fraying and to help them stick down just a little more.  Plus, it's freakin' glitter!

Ta-Da! My lovely little ornament pillow! Honestly it took almost no time at all, the hardest (and longest!) part was deciding how I wanted to arrange the ornaments!

Merry Crafting!