Ruffle pellow

Today I will instruct you on how to make beautiful ruffle pillow. The best thing is you can reuse old T-shirts. This pillow will go lovely on your bed or couch.

Now I will give you a step-by-step tutorial. I will start by giving you all the materials that are needed.

Materials 

·         Scissors

·         A rolling cutter (if you have it)

·         A cutting mat

·         A measuring square

·         One or two fabrics of your choice

·         Old T-shirts

·         Straight pins

Step One: Pick one (or two if you desire each side to be a different color) color of fabric.

Step Two: Pick 1-3 T-shirts that go with the fabric or fabrics you picked.

Step Thee: Now get your cutting mat, your rolling cutter (if you don’t have one scissors work fine) and your measuring square. Use your measuring square and cut your fabric the size you want your pillow (I made mine 10 inches) (make sure to cut on the cutting mat so you do not cut anything you don’t want to) you want two piece one for the front and one for the back, so if you have two fabrics cut one piece out of each fabric. If you only have one fabric you can fold the piece in half and cut.

Step Four: Cut two or three strips of T-shirt, from the bottom of the shirt.

Step Five:  Now cut the T-shirt strips in a wavy design, then stretch them, this will give them a wave and also by stretching them they will curl a little. Then you will want to pin the T-shirt strips on one or both sides were you want them.

Step Six: With a sewing machine, sew down the middle of the strips, and take the pins out as you go.

Step Seven: (Optional step) cut a circular strip of T-shirt off. Take the pillow and sew the T-shirt around the pillow when you come to were you started overlap a little (about an inch) and then cut the extra off. (If you have a large pillow you can make do with two strips, and cutting them so they are flat and sewing them together to make one long one)

Step Eight: Now take the two sides of the pillow and carefully sew them together to make sure, not to sew the ruffle in. (Make sure to turn the pillow inside out before you sew it so you can turn it right side out and the stitching will be on the inside.)

Step Nine: Turn it right side out. Poke the corners out. And stuff it.

Step Ten: Now sew the opening closed (backstitch about a half a inch when you get to the end of the opening, just to make it stronger.) (Don’t worry about the stitching showing the ruffle will hide it, but if you want to you could stitch all the way around the pillow.)