This tutorial will be featuring the first pillow, though.
Step 1) Cut out the pieces for your pillow form. I used a tutorial from Brooke from All Things Thrifty to make my pillow form. For our 17" pillows, we will need one 18"x18" piece and two 18"x12.5" pieces.
Step 2) Tear your strips of fabric for the flower. I did mine up the 36" side, and if you've never torn fabric, it's typically easy depending on the fabric you've chosen (the satin fabric I had on my wedding dress pillow was MUCH too strong to tear, so I had to cut that one and then fray the edges by taking out strings from the edge). For regular cotton fabrics, cut a small snip at 3", and just go ahead and rip straight up the fabric! I ended up with 6 strips were 3"x36".
Step 3) Start your rosette bud. Fold the end of one of your strips of fabric and then strat rolling it up as you bunch the fabric slightly to give it more fullness. Once you have a good start, hand stitch the bottom a few times to secure it.
Step 4) Attach the rosette bud to the center of your 18"x18" piece.
Step 5) Start stitching the rest of the flower. If you want to be precise, you can take a pencil and draw a spiral pattern on the reverse, so you can follow that while stitching. I think flowers are naturally imperfect, so I just kind of wing it (I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal anyway). My rows are about 1"-1.5" apart. Just scrunch/bunch as you go!.
But no worries...she's just lovely on the front!
Step 6) Add your center embellishment. I used three small buttons for this one.
Step 7) Use Brooke's tutorial to finish the rest of the pillow, and BE SURE to tuck in your flower edges when you're sewing, so you don't accidentally sew the "petal" into your seam!
Since my flower was a slightly imperfect, my pillow ended up being more of a rectangle than a square. I stitched up the side of my pillow form and cut the excess right off.
Thanks for spending a few minutes with me (or an hour or so if you're making your own!).
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Every time I come over here, I want to see things in person, meet you and enjoy some Hawaiian sunshine! Have a wonderful weekend!
I'm in the process of revamping our pillows and this one is definitely on my to do list, thanks for sharing the tutorial!
Your work is impressive as well as the best for the getting the perfect idea about giving a gift in Christmas or any occasions. You made such a beautiful pillow, this flower creation also best for attaching on dress.
Thanks for sharing how you made this!