Burlap No-Sew Pillow

Hello there! It's been a crazy couple of weeks around here! Not only did we have 3 birthdays and 3 graduations, but my step-daughter, and now son-in-law got married on Saturday.

It's been a crazy fun happy whirlwind!

 

But, now things should settle down a little bit, and I can get a little more done around here.

 

 

I wanted to show you another no-sew pillow I made which I've been using on the front porch, and in the kitchen. I even managed to make rosettes to decorate it. (I've got hot glue burns on my thumbs, but that's par for the course I suppose. DIY is a dangerous business.)

 

 

 

Do you have an old pillow you'd like to cover? I took an old pillow that needed to be covered and just measured how much burlap I would need, and cut it to size.

 

 

To make a clean line when you cut the burlap, you grab a little strand, like below, and pull it right out, leaving you with a clean, straight line to cut.

 

 

  You can see that line right?

 

 

Next I just placed the pillow in between the two pieces, and glue gunned the burlap on the inside edges. I made sure to leave about half an inch all around so that I could "fray" the edges.

 

 

Once the pillow was in it's burlap envelope, I decided to make some rosettes. I am going to give you a tutorial I followed, rather than try to explain it here. Take a few minutes just playing with the strip of burlap before you start gluing. Once it "clicks", you will be a rosette making expert.

 

Rosette Tutorial Here

 

 

 

Once they were done, I glued them onto the pillow.

 

 

I then stenciled our last name on the pillow, for a little extra detail.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm happy with the pillow. The burlap is a little messy, so I wouldn't lean on it if I was wearing a black sweater, but it looks cute! Plus it cost me nothing to make, as I had the burlap, glue and old pillow! Yessss!

 

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