Flanged Pillow Ornament

You can’t realy tell where the puffy areas end and the flange begin because of the dark coloured fabric. I cheated a little as I used Katrina’s tutorial but appliqued a tatted motif instead

Thanks to you Katrina, I am quite confident now with this kind of finish and will definitely try more!

This is going out to a stitcher friend…I don’t think she reads this blog…at least I hope not

Flange Pillow Tutorial

Hello everyone, this weekend its time for our Flange Pillow class.

For the list of materials see here.

Anyone can do this project, its very easy and feel free to ask any questions if you are unsure of something

There are two parts to making a flange pillow, firstly, finishing the stitched piece and then making the pillow. Lets begin by getting the stitched piece ready.

(Please note: for my pillow I used 1/4 inch seam allowance)

Press your stitched piece from the back.

Measure out 1 inch from the stitched edge and trim. Cut some light coloured backing fabric (I used calico fabric) to match the same size as the stitched piece.

Place atop of stitched piece, right sides together. Sew together using a 1/4 inch seam, leaving a small opening for turning. Trim if you need to and turn right side out.

Press and blind stitch the opening closed.

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Now for the Pillow: these next instructions are based on finishing a 9 1/2 inch square pillow, with the flange measuring 1 inch.

Cut two 9 3/4 inch squares from your coloured fabric. Now pin the two pieces right side together. Sew all around using 1/4″ seam, leaving a small opening for turning.

Turn in right way and press.

Mark 1″ from the edge all around the square on wrong side of pillow -this is where you will sew to make the flange. I use a water soluble pen to do this.

Start your sewing parrallel to the outside opening and sew around the square, finishing parrallel to the other end of outside opening.

Now you are ready to fill your pillow with stuffing.

Fill to desired “puffiness” and then you can either handsew the two openings closed or use your sewing machine. I sew the inside opening closed and then use a blind seam on outside edge.

Now its time to join on the stitched piece. Place stitched piece onto pillow and pin into place.

You can use buttons that have been covered in matching fabric, like I did, or other suitable buttons. Sew buttons onto four corners, sewing through the stitched piece to the pillow to secure.

That’s all there is to it – admire your pillow!!

I hope these instructions make sense -like I said earlier, please feel free to ask any questions if you have any. I know that some people will use a different sized stitched piece so the measurements will need to be adjusted to allow for that. If you need some help with working out what size your pillow will be, please let me know.

Also, please post a photo to the blog of your finished pillow as everyone would enjoy seeing them.

Have fun and happy sewing,

Katrina

Flange Pillow Tutorial Reminder

Hi everyone, just a reminder that this coming weekend, 21st and 22nd July, its time for our flange pillow tutorial.

For a list of materials, please see here

Hope you can join us

bye for now, Katrina

Flange Pillow Materials List

Flange pillows are great fun and are used alot by many of our favourite designers. So what is a flange pillow? Its a pillow that has a border of flat fabric that goes around the outer edge of the pillow. This border is not sewn on; it is an effect created by sewing and stuffing the actual pillow a few inches away from the edge of the material. Later in the month I’m going to be showing a tutorial on how to make one, just like the photo above. To make the pillow just like mine, 9 1/2″ square, you will need the following supplies:

1. Your stitched piece. (My stitched piece was 5″ by 5″ square).

2. Some plain backing fabric (calico fabric is good for this).

3. Sewing thread and fabric to match your design.

4. Stuffing for the cushion.

5. Four buttons.

6. Pins, sewing scissors, a needle, and your sewing machine.

The class is going to be the weekend of the 21st & 22nd July so I hope you can join me then. In the meantime, happy stitching and feel free to leave me any comments if you have any questions.

Seen around blogland

I’ve seen a couple of finishes on blogs where the stitchers have used the class tutorials available here, so I thought I’d share:

Goldie’s cute bourse (class instructions here)

Annie’s tie-on pillow (class instructions here)

If you’ve seen any finishes (or done one of your own) using any of the class tutorials on the blog, please feel free to post them here so we can all admire them

May FAL weekend – KarenV

I decided to try out my version of Pine Mountain Designs’ All-Tied Up Pillows on this little piece that I stitched last year.  It was quite quick to do, once I’d figured out the measurements and how it all fitted together:

BC Flowers in the Springtime (adapted)

Squeezed another one in!

I finished the stitching on Erica Michael’s Designs Random Thoughts of Spring yesterday morning and decided I might as well get the finishing done too! Nothing like striking whilst the iron’s hot I made it up into a little pillow yesterday afternoon, but the ribbon and button were added today – I didn’t have any suitable ribbon in my stash so I had to pop to Hobbycraft this morning, as they were obviously closed yesterday:

It’s stitched on 32ct Kowhai Lugana from Countrystitch with OWS Greenpeace – the fabric is a much brighter yellow IRL but it was quite shady in this part of the garden this morning and this was the best pic that I could get

FAL weekend of April- Lucialoo

This week-end I finished my first punchneedle design into a little door-hanger. I’m really happy about the way it turned out. I simply used some woolfelt to make it…

The design is Just Ewe by Elizabeth Designs.

Anne’s Tie-On Pillow

Thank you very much Karen for an excellent tutorial. I didn’t have any trouble following your instructions and your photos were very clear. I had a lot of fun making this little pillow and will be using this technique again. The design is a freebie from Stitchy Kitty.

Cindy’s tie-on pillow

Hi ladies. I managed to stitch this project this morning with Karen’s excellent tutorial! I was afraid there would be buttonholes or something complicated.

My sampler is an old Ewe & Eye pattern. The pillow measures about 11 x 6 inches.

It will be fun getting all these unfinished items transformed into projects like this one. Thanks again Karen, I’m glad I found this blog.

Cindy