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To update the interior of the children's room and make the baby's bed more comfortable, it is enough to decorate it with a couple of three decorative pillows. We offer creative mothers to sew them with their own hands, because this is done quickly, simply and on a budget. The main thing here is to come up with an interesting design and choose the right materials.
In this article, we have collected 30 inspiring photo examples of baby pillows for beginners and experienced craftswomen, and also prepared 3 step-by-step DIY sewing workshops:
- Toy pillows in the form of a cloud.
- Pillows-letters.
- Patchwork style pillows.
- Combine different pillows with each other for a more fun interior. The composition can be united by the shape, color or print of the products. When choosing fabrics, it is easiest to focus on the colors and patterns of the wallpaper, as well as the rest of the textiles in the children's room. For example, pillows can overlap with curtains, sofa upholstery and, of course, a blanket.
- When coming up with the style and decor of the future product, take into account the style of the interior. If, say, bright toy pillows can be sewn for a modern interior, then products of calm colors and traditional styles in the form of rollers and pillows with ruffles or tassels are more suitable for a modern interior, as in the photo below.
- For sewing baby pillows, it is advisable to use natural and dense fabrics (linen, cotton), which are much easier to wash, say, felt, and look much more beautiful than synthetics like fleece.
- Before sewing, the fabric should be washed and ironed, then you will sew already taking into account the shrinkage of the material.
- It is clear that baby pillows should be washed often, but how to wash decorative pillows that do not have pillowcases and must always keep their shape? We recommend using:
- Synthepukh (not to be confused with synthetic winterizer);
- Holofiber.
These materials are hypoallergenic, keep their shape well after washing, and they can be washed in a washing machine at a low temperature, even with a spin cycle. Unfortunately, synthetic winterizer, natural fluff, buckwheat, batting, foam rubber and other fillers do not have such properties.
- If you want to make a decorative and sleeping pillow at the same time, for example, a bolster or a side for a crib, then it is recommended to sew not just a pillow, but a pillowcase with a pillowcase. After all, removable pillowcases are much easier to wash, besides, by sewing one pillowcase and a pair of matching pillowcases, you can update the interior according to your mood.
Master class number 1: Pillow-cloud from a sweater
As you know, the world of children's interiors has its own trends and such pillows in the form of clouds are just at the peak of their popularity. They are good because they are easy to sew, look cute and are suitable for decorating a room for both a boy and a girl. In this master class, we will tell you how to sew a soft cloud with your own hands from any sweater in a pleasant color.
Materials:
- Sweater (better made of polyester than acrylic. By the way, instead of a sweater, you can take an old cotton sweatshirt, T-shirt, etc.);
- Synthepukh;
- Sewing accessories;
- Sewing machine (if any);
- Paper for making patterns.
Step 1. Draw on paper a pattern in the form of a cloud or any other shape that you like.
Step 2. Turn the sweater inside out (!) And attach the resulting template (including the back layer of fabric) to it using pins as shown in the photo. Then we outline the contour of the cloud and start cutting out the blanks with an indent of about 0.7 mm (for allowances).
Step. 3. Now we begin to grind two parts of the pillow along the previously drawn contour, but be sure to leave about 10 cm not sewn.
Step 4. In the places where the cloud is rounded and in the corners, we make cuts - this will make the shape of the pillow more accurate and correct.
Step 5. Unscrew the pillow and stuff it tightly with filler using, for example, a Chinese stick. Finally, cover the hole with a blind stitch.
Woo-ala! The baby pillow is ready!
Based on this master class, you can sew pillows in a variety of shapes and colors. For example, a cloud can have arms and legs, beady eyes and ruddy felt cheeks.
Instead of a cloud, you can sew a star, a raindrop, a moon, a heart or a candy. For examples of such pillows, see the following selection of photos.
Master class number 2: Pillow letter
And now we propose to sew another simple but original letter pillow, which will help to personalize a nursery or a bed, if, for example, there are more children.
Materials:
- Textile;
- Synthepukh;
- Sewing accessories;
- Sewing machine.
By combining 3 types of fabric, you can use up leftovers and make your pillow design more fun.
Step 1. Select a letter, draw it (or print it in A4 format) and cut it out along the contour.
Step 2. Now we need to cut out two parts of the pillow - front and back.
- To cut the front of the pillow you need to: put our template face up on the fabric that is face up, circle it and then cut out the blank.
- To cut the back side of the letter you need to: do everything the same way, but first turn the template "wrong side" up, that is, according to the principle of mirror reflection.
Step 3. Now you need to prepare the side of the pillow.
- Its length should be equal to the perimeter of the letter + 2 cm for allowances. You determine the width of the sidewall yourself, for example, it can be 4 cm, then, taking into account the 2 cm allowance for the seams, the width of the workpiece will be 6 cm.
But since you will most likely not be able to cut a whole strip of fabric, you will need to cut several strips of the same width and stitch them, so that in the end you get one tape of the desired length.
Step 4. Sew the sidewall to the first letter. To do this, we fold them facing each other and begin to grind along the entire perimeter of the workpiece.
- For convenience, the side strip can be attached with pins.
We repeat the same procedure with the second half of the pillow, but leave a small section unfinished.
A cute and cozy piece of furniture for a nursery will be a toy pillow. With their own hands, mothers can sew surprisingly functional things that will delight babies. There are no boundaries to creativity and imagination in creativity. Get acquainted with the master classes from this article, and you will understand that there is nothing difficult in sewing a pillow-toy. Even a novice seamstress can draw original patterns with his own hands.
Donut pillow
Want to surprise your little sweet tooth? Make him a huge donut! Perhaps he will not immediately understand that this is a toy pillow. With your own hands, you can sew a sweet donut with glaze and decorate it as your fantasy suggests.
For sewing you will need:
- Beige base fabric. Fleece or felt will do.
- Fleece for glaze. Choose the color yourself (pink, mint, chocolate)
- Holofiber or padding polyester.
Think about the size of the future toy pillow. Draw a circle with your own hands or with a compass. As a shape for a circle, you can use materials at hand: a bowl, a bucket. To depict the hole of the donut, sketch out, for example, a plate.
Take the frosting cloth and cut the same blank out of it. Draw a wave around the edge with a pencil. Cut off any excess.
Cut out thin strips of felt of different colors - this is a donut sprinkle. Stitch them on a typewriter. Sew the frosting to the base of the donut using a zigzag pattern.
Connect the two pieces of the donut, leaving the holes for the stuffing. Fill your pillow with holofiber. Close the hole with a decorative stitch. So the pillow toy is ready. With your own hands, you can decorate it to your taste.
Shirt pillow
A rather boring, but not yet completely worn-out thing can be turned into a stylish accessory - a pillowcase for a pillow. Men's shirts tend to wear down at the cuffs and collar, and the front and back look pretty decent.
Fasten the thing with all the buttons. Cut off the top with sleeves and collar. Turn the shirt inside out. Sew along the cutting line.
Place a cushion in the middle of the fabric and trace around it with chalk. Sewing the pillowcase along the line. We unfasten the buttons and turn them inside out. Insert the pillow into the pillowcase and close it.
Anti-stress pillow
It is also called a pillow-cushion. Due to the filler, it is pleasant to hold the thing in your hands, wrinkle and lie on it. During the manipulations, due to the granules with which it is filled, a light massage takes place, which stimulates the nerve endings. Pillows are sewn from bright fabrics that will cheer you up.
Such products can be purchased in the form:
- geometric shape;
- toys;
- semicircle under the neck.
There is nothing difficult in sewing such a toy pillow. It is not at all difficult to draw patterns with your own hands. This can be, for example, the image of the beloved by many cat Simon from the cartoon of the same name.
If your artistic ability is tight, then you can simply cut out two ovals, sew cat ears, paws and eyes to it, depict a mustache with a permanent marker. They can also write a funny phrase on the item that will cheer you up.
How to stuff a toy?
Most often, such accessories are filled with synthetic material - polystyrene balls. The material does not crumble and is pleasant to the touch. It does not absorb moisture and does not breed dust mites. That is why it is considered the safest for children. The low price is a big plus.
When sewing with your own hands, you can fill the pillow with wool, buckwheat, peas or buckwheat husks.
DIY toy pillows: original patterns
Is there a lack of bright accents in the nursery or living room? Do you want to make an unusual gift for your little birthday boy? Then consider sewing a toy pillow with your own hands. You can see the original products in the photo below. Perhaps they will inspire you to create exclusive items.
Is your child a dreamer and likes to retire in his room with a book? Make him a corner on a wide windowsill where you can sit and look at the stars. Decorative pillows of various shapes and sizes will help you create a special atmosphere.
Pillows with appliques
Little princesses will be delighted with a pillow with an applique in the form of a ball gown.
A boy can be presented with a thing with a picture of a wise owl. It is not at all difficult to draw by hand the templates according to which you can sew products!
A couple of cute birds will decorate not only the nursery, but also the living room or bedroom.
Be creative, come up with your own sketches. There are a huge number of bright fabrics and accessories on sale - it's so easy to be creative! You will definitely get more than one designer pillow-toy.
With your own hands, you will create a small fairy-tale universe in the nursery - an island of comfort and peace for the child, which will belong exclusively to him.
Learning is always difficult and interesting. The desire for everything new, the desire to create are almost natural to human nature. Mastering another skill in needlework takes us one step further and allows us to improve our craft. Perhaps today, making pillows with your own hands will become a new skill for you, the patterns that we have selected for you will help in sewing.
Pillow Toys: Sleeping Owlets
We will sew such dozing little owls measuring 40 × 40 cm:
A step-by-step master class will help us with this.
You need to prepare:
- cotton-based fabric for the pillowcase and denser fabric for the pillowcase;
- felt for the decoration of the face;
- paper to redraw the pattern on it;
- pencil;
- synthetic winterizer;
- small flap of artificial leather;
- scissors;
- lightning;
- glue for fabric.
The pattern in the photo has a straight bottom for the convenience of sewing on a zipper.
Circle the pattern on the wrong side of the fabric for the pillowcase and for the pillowcase, set aside the seam allowances. Cut out parts of the owl from both fabrics. There should be 4 pieces for one pillow.
Cut out the eyes and nose out of felt, apply and sew in a zigzag.
Make eyelashes out of artificial leather and stick on the eyes.
Now you need to sew on the fastener. First, overlock the bottom section of the fabric with a zigzag stitch. Fold the edges to the wrong side and stitch on one part of the zipper, half-covering the teeth, then the other.
The clasp turns out to be hidden.
Join the parts with a seam with a straight stitch, folding them with the right sides inward.
Particular attention should be paid to the seam around the zipper.
Cut off seam allowances close to the seam or make cuts in rounded areas.
Turn to the right side.
Cut out 4 parts of the legs.
Fold right sides and sew, leaving holes for turning out, cut off allowances.
Unscrew the legs, lay a line along the edge, overlay the unsewn place. Then pin the paws with needles, as shown in the photo.
Sew on the attached parts, fold the edge and re-stitch.
To make voluminous legs, they can be stuffed with padding polyester. If it is necessary to give them hardness, then for this, interlining or other material is glued from the inside out.
A second pillowcase is made in a similar way.
Now we need to sew the pillowcase. We take the cut out parts from dense fabric, fold with the wrong sides up and lay the machine stitch, leaving a small unsewn window. Overlock the seams and turn out the pillowcase.
Carry out the stuffing, sew up the hole with a blind seam.
Sew another pillowcase for a second pillowcase.
Tie a bow for a girl, make a leatherette bow tie for a boy.
These are owls made of fabric.
What other pillows are there
Pillow Toys Ideas
1. Ships.
They can be sewn from leftover fabric or cut out scraps from unwanted items.
2. Developing soft pillow-machine will help you to learn colors and geometric shapes in a playful way.
The copy in the photo is crocheted.
In general, you can come up with a pattern yourself or draw using the ideas given.
3. Mischievous cat made of rags.
4. This penguin is crocheted in a spiral. Basic stitches are half crochets, but you can use others based on your knitting experience.
5. Pillows of different shapes.
- The choice for stuffing should be a material that is simply erased. Since things that fall into the hands of a child tend to get dirty quickly.
- The filler should be light in weight. Because pillows are used by children and as building materials for their homes, moreover, they constantly migrate from one room to another. And in general, are you abandoning heavy things? Probably every child loves to arrange pillow fights.
Holofiber, synthetic fluff, polystyrene meet these requirements.
More details on how to sew a pillow can be found below.
Pillows-toys for games, sleeping, floor, for the road under the neck or back, for sitting, decorative pillows will be liked by children and adults!
Pillow toys will undoubtedly transform your interior, making it more joyful and bright. When creating a toy pillow with your own hands, pay special attention to choosing an idea. Textiles generally play an important role in creating a certain home atmosphere. And with the help of decorative pillows, you can enhance the emphasis on a certain mood that reigns in the house.
It only takes a little creativity, creativity and imagination to make it happen.
Soft pads that can be found in all rooms can have a completely unexpected look. In addition to boring and monotonous square and round products, you can completely unexpectedly sew a new and intricate thing.
She will play the role of not only textiles, but also soft toys for the smallest in the house. Such products provide for an element of play, while they can be easily taken not only with you to bed, but also played on the floor.
DIY toy pillows - looking for inspiration
Specialized shops and supermarkets for children have long offered a wide range of play cushions. Most often they are presented in the form of large soft toys with 4 legs, which can be fixed with Velcro, thus creating an ideal quadrangular shape.
With such creative pillows, it is much easier for a child to be put into bed in a playful way, or simply to decorate your bed or sofa in the living room with them. A large number of such pillows in the same style help to create a certain coziness, helping to comfortably sit down and enjoy your vacation.
However, toy pillows can also be made independently with your own hands, just armed with the necessary materials, patterns and patience. Most often they are made in the form of soft animal toys, which have a wide body-base with soft and pleasant padding.
The main advantage of such products is that you can use the remnants of fabric and rags on them, harmoniously and correctly stitching them into a single composition. With the help of these pillows, the child can learn colors, as well as develop the sensitivity and motor skills of their hands, playing with bows, ribbons, buttons or other decorative elements on it.
DIY pillows for children may also have the form of letters. This is quite a fashionable and widespread trend lately among young parents. At first, the letters of the name simply decorate the bed of the crumbs, and in the future they serve as toys and pillows for him while playing on the floor. They can have different packing heights and thicknesses. The main thing is to arrange them correctly and harmoniously, combining them with a common fabric element or other accessory.
Another type of modern and fun toy pillow is draft bolsters. Most often they are performed in the form of funny animals on a string or animals with a long body. Such colorful rollers will not only protect from blowing out on the windowsill, near the door or balcony block.
Important! If the pillow is used purely for sleeping, then it is worth avoiding the use of hard materials - buttons, thick fabric, plastic stakes. They can injure the skin while resting.
A separate place is occupied by pillows for travel in transport. They often resemble standard products for adults, only they are made in the shape of the letter "C", where the shape is repeated by an animal twisted into a ball or its long and fluffy tail.
Such pillows will help little travelers to gain strength with pleasure at any time of the day, in an unusual body position.
DIY toy pillows - how to choose the right fabric for sewing?
Embodying interesting ideas of pillow toys with your own hands, it is important to understand what materials you should work with. The durability and strength of the finished product depends on the tooling and quality of the fabric used.
As for the color scheme, any solution and variety can reign here. The main thing is to initially decide for yourself what functions the pad will perform.
If it decorates a room or upholstered furniture, then be sure to combine with the general tones of the interior. If this is just a funny and bright children's toy, then it can have the most unexpected embodiment.
Quite often, the funniest and cutest DIY pillow toy ideas come up with ordinary old scraps of fabric.
They can be left over from old sewing articles, cuts, worn out but bright things. It is them that can be cheaply and cheerfully turned into a new funny thing.
As for the filler, here it is necessary to foresee in advance the functionality and direct purpose of the finished product.
If you want to fill it with down or feathers, then it will not hold the desired shape that you want to give.
To DIY toy pillow ideas were brought to life strictly according to the conceived plan, then they should be stuffed with silicone, dense cotton cloth, or foam rubber.
If the design of the finished pillow toy can allow for a cover or removable elements, then it is better to think about this in advance and calculate when sewing.
This will help you more often clean this thing from dirt and dust, preserving its original appearance as long as possible.
Most often, pillowcases or covers are created from dense and high-quality fabric - fleece, jeans, drape or linen, which, with frequent washing, will not lose their shape and original appearance.
If you want to create a "cool" pillow for hot summer nights, then take silk fabrics as a basis.
They will keep you feeling cool for a very long time. Brocade products for children are not worth making. They are better suited for the general decoration of furniture in certain classic interiors.
Using pillow fillers
In addition to using standard fillers (feathers, down, foam rubber, etc.), you also need to know certain rules and secrets of filling a pillow-toy with your own hands.
The main requirements and criteria for the work performed look something like this:
- First of all, the material used for stuffing the product must have hypoallergenic properties. This will avoid unnecessary problems and will not expose the health of the household;
- The filling should have a medium hardness. A base that is too hard will not be comfortable and orthopedic. Soft padding - over time, it will completely lose the shape of the sewn thing;
- An ideal filler should not lose its original shape and volume even after washing or dry cleaning;
- The interior must be easy to clean many times.
These criteria can be met by polyester materials of different processing - synthetic winterizer, foam rubber or synthetic fluff.
Very often, many needlewomen, making a pillow for the house with their own hands, make one serious mistake - they use cotton wool for stuffing. However, products with such a "filling" will not last long, in particular, if they play the role of a child's toy. Over time, the cotton wool begins to roll down and stray into one certain corner. The product with it will lose its shape, and become dense and unpleasant to the touch.
Slightly less often, instead of stuffing, old fabric rags or fur are used, however, they also do not tend to keep the shape of the pillow for a very long time with frequent use. An alternative would be silicone balls, which come in different sizes and diameters. They contribute to the development of motor skills in children and quite easily give the product the desired shape.
Decor Toy Pillow Ideas
It is difficult to imagine a single-color and expressionless pillow-toy for children. Needlewomen often try to give them brightness and resemblance to different cartoon characters or animals.
For this, quite different materials and tools can be used, the main thing is to determine the direct purpose of the product.
The basis for the decor can be bows, colorful ribbons, laces, buttons, zippers, lace, beads or beads. It is better to deprive products for very little ones of small accessories in order to protect the baby from swallowing small particles.
And for older kids, it is best to fix all the additional elements well - to sew or glue them in order to prolong the life of the funny animal. From these auxiliary things, you can make facial features, clothes, bows, flowers and other cute applications.
What do you need for sewing?
Don't worry if you don't have the proper sewing experience or a wide range of tools. Sewing a funny pillow-toy can be done quickly and easily with your own hands, even if there is no special sewing technique nearby.
This is especially easy to do if you are sewing a toy from different scraps of fabric. The main thing in this is to iron all the seams with an iron and carefully sew everything with thick threads. Separately, the seams can be decorated and reinforced with tape. It remains only to fill the product with filler and take care of the design of the appearance.
If the finished pillow should have a completely simple shape - a long roller, square or rectangle with the animal's legs sewn separately, then here it is quite appropriate to use a zipper or buttons to fix it.
These things of regular geometric shapes provide only the correct stuffing, which should have its own clear radius and length. More complex pillow toys should be sewn according to certain sketches or clues.
Ideas for creativity can be taken from specialized literature, magazines for needlewomen, or simply on the Internet. To do this, there are a huge number of sites and forums, where you will be offered patterns and patterns for every taste.
Decorating your home or giving your child a real soft friend made with your own hands is very easy and simple. Create and embody your imagination in creativity and needlework. This will give you a lot of positive emotions and great mood!
