I have been in a serious pillow-making mood lately. I have a pillow obsession going on my Pinterest page - check it out. While I don't sell pillows or pillow covers in my Etsy store, Pretty Pretty Cindy, I might someday. I am starting to sell on Sundays on my Instagram Pretty Pretty Cindy account, so follow me there. In the meantime, I need some pillows at my house!
I have been working on our master bedroom for a while and wanted to work in some pillows on our blue/green-gray bedding. The bedding set came with two European shams, but I wanted throw pillows for color too. But have you seen the prices of home decorating fabric, and worse yet, pillow forms? My pillow fetish could easily break the bank. Goodwill to the rescue!
Last month I visited our local Goodwill store on a half-price Saturday. For only $22, I brought home the following stash:
2 26x26" European pillows
2 18x18" pillows
2 14" round pillows
2 large pieces of fabric
Large scarf (it's that pink silk in the corner)
Minky baby blanket (not shown)
Obviously I bought the pillows for the forms, but not everyone is comfortable buying used pillows. I pick pretty carefully. Once you get them home and remove the fabric covers, you can always spray them with a diluted bleach solution and put them in the sun. I was lucky these pillows (while ugly) were very clean. I think the two pieces of fabric were originally a table cloth and maybe some curtains. By looking in slightly different places for fabric and pillow forms, I was able to engage my pillow obsession without breaking the bank! Here's the result:
For the two big pillows in the back I used the forms from the Goodwill pillows and the shams that came with the bedding. Buying ONE pillow form alone in a 26x26" size could cost more than $22. I made the pillow covers on the other four pillows. Two of the pillows came from forms I bought at Goodwill and the fabric mostly came from Goodwill. I didn't buy any new fabric or trim for these pillows. Isn't that awesome? These are also all "envelope" style pillow covers, so I can remove them to dry clean or just change for a different design.
I'll post how I made these pillows, but I will admit that I shamelessly copied designs I found on Pinterest.
The best part - this isn't even using the whole Goodwill haul! I still have other pillows and was able to recycle some of fabric from the Goodwill pillow covers. Upcycle!
More pillows to come.
cindy
