Four Venti, Non-Fat Pillows Please
We made pillows out of coffee bean bags.
About a year ago, when passing through Black Mountain, NC I stopped at a fabric store and stumbled on these goodies. They screamed of Chad Whited and were only $1.99 each so I picked up three of them for future use around the casa not being completely sure of where they’d go. The don’t-buy-it-unless-you-know-where-to-put-it rule didn’t apply here since I was more than three hours from home and they were such a steal.
My first thought was to do something like this and recover a small ottoman or pouf - but then the green stripe had me thinking that these could be the perfect solution for inexpensive dining room lumbar pillows.
Since the green matches something else in our dining room so well.
So after a year of being folded up in the closet we finally turned these little gems into pillows. And we’re thinking they look pretty flippin’ sweet.
Alls we did was cut out 8 12×20 inch rectangles from the bags and surge the edges to stop the fraying.
No, you didn’t miss the part where we bought a serger. These were made on the weekend trip that will forever be known as Pillow-Palooza 2011. I went home to Alabama this past weekend, lots of fabric in hand and my mom made me helped me make seven pillows in one day. It was ca-razy. And no, I don’t watch that show.
So – cut ‘em out, serge the edges if you have such contraption and then sew them together with a regular sewing machine leaving a little hole for stuffing. We sewed the carcasses this weekend and then I came back to NC and stuffed them on the couch while watching this.
Lucy looked pretty confused as to why I was adding stuffing to a pillow considering her pillow projects usually come out looking a little something like this.
or this.
All in all these were super-easy-peasy to make and renewed my interest in those magical little things called sewing machines. We’ll see how far that feeling takes us. Plus the materials were a cool four bucks and we have one bag left over. No caffeine freak out required.
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Very cute…. It’s good to have a Mom who can and will help with projects….. they look fabulous!