{"id":788,"date":"2010-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.positivelysplendid.com\/make-your-own-pillow-forms\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:28:17","slug":"make-your-own-pillow-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positivelysplendid.com\/make-your-own-pillow-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Pillow Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>wo things you might not already know about me:<\/p>\n

#1)<\/span><\/span><\/span> I like to save money, but I like to do it in style.<\/center>
#2) <\/span><\/span><\/span>When I don’t feel like hauling my crew over the river and through the woods for close to a half hour each way, my only option for craft supplies is Super Wal-mart.<\/center>

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It is those two facts above that lead me to come up with today’s tutorial. Last week as I was gearing up to make the Patriotic Outdoor Pillows<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span> I shared yesterday, I found myself short of the pillow forms and I needed to get the job done. It has been hot. Oh so hot. And I didn’t have it in me to make a trip to Joann or Hobby Lobby with all three monkeys in tow. So what is the girl who finds herself in such a pickle to do? She improvises!<\/center>

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I headed to Wal-mart to look at their supply of pillow forms, which, sadly, was quite lacking. (If only they had put a fabric section in our new store!) I ventured to the home decor aisle. Nothing for less than $9\/apiece, which I simply wasn’t willing to pay for this project. (Refer to #1 above.) I was about to suck it up and head into town when I walked past an endcap advertising body pillows marked down to $8 apiece. Eureka! I could dismantle one of these beauties to create three pillow forms on my own. Here’s how I did it.<\/center>

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1 20 x 54″ body pillow<\/center>
Marking pen<\/center>
Shears<\/center>
Sewing machine<\/center>
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Rotary cutter and mat<\/center>
Various sewing notions and supplies: measuring tape, ruler, pins, etc.<\/center>

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Repeat the above steps with your other end section. Now, let’s finish up your middle section, the one with two open sides instead of just one.<\/p>\n

To make a rectangle with this section as I have done, use a rotary cutter to straighten your top and bottom edges (the edges you trimmed in the first step to separate your sections). I trimmed off enough so that my piece was 16″ wide, leaving the sides with the factory serged seams untrimmed. (From serged seam to serged seam, this side measured 20″.) After everything has been trimmed, pin open edges together with serged seams on the outside, and sew each side shut with a 1\/2-inch seam, leaving a 6-inch opening on one side for turning. (Pivot at the opening as you did before to make turning your pillow right-side out easier.) Finish as you did the other two pillows.<\/center>

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For $8 and about an hour’s worth of work, I was able to procure the pillow forms I needed for my project. I will certainly be using this trick in the future!<\/center>

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