Easy Homemade Pillows For Your Wooden Storage Boxes

An excellent way to pack away your outside accessories in a stylish and understated manner is wooden storage boxes. These boxes can also be used as benches, creating extra seating in your backyard. An easy way to increase the comfort and attractiveness of your benches is by creating unique, customized pillows.

The cushion is one of the easiest things to sew, and even the most inexperienced seamstress can make one without effort. With a small amount of materials and minimal time, you can decorate your wooden storage boxes without difficulty.

It is essential to use a fabric that dries quickly and can hold up against the weather. Ehow.com suggests you use a vinyl material, or to make a more cost-effective pillow, you can simply use a vinyl tablecloth. You can also choose polyester or acrylic cloths, depending on how stiff you want your cushion to be.

The first step in making your cushion is measuring your wooden storage box in order to determine how large of a cushion you need to make. Next, add one inch and the depth of the pillow to the measurement. Cautiously cut two pieces of your material into pieces of this size.

Place the two pieces of fabric together with their right sides facing each other. Pin along the sides of the material, and start sewing. Finish three sides and begin sewing the fourth side, leaving a gap big enough through which to stuff the pillow.

The next step in decorative pillow creation process is filling it. There are several filling options from which you can choose to suit the needs of your outdoor storage boxes.

For a softer pillow, you can use foam. Foam is easily cut into whatever size you want your cushion to be, and you can purchase outdoor foam which dries quickly. Unfortunately, foam is a less resilient filling than other options.

You also can choose to stuff the pillow with a poly fiber fill. This filling allows for better air circulation, which permits the pillow to dry faster. You can choose the firmness of your pillow by how much of this fiber you use.

Flip the pillow inside-out so that the right sides of the cloth are both facing out. Stuff your pillow to the desired thickness and firmness with the filling of your choosing. If you have old pillows you want to get rid of, you can recycle the padding by using it in your new cushions.

After filling the pillow, finish by stitching by hand the opening. Be careful to use even, tight stitches so that the pillow does not tear apart. Also, since you are sewing on the outside of the cushion, it is important that they look neat and orderly.

Creating unique pillows for your wooden storage boxes requires only that you follow these simple steps. You can transform your outdoor storage from plain to a customized expression of your style by merely adding these pillows. Even the novice at sewing can make these pillows and decorate their backyard in style.

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Decorating With Pillows

It is so easy to add springtime color and comfort to your home with pillows. You can sew them yourself or purchase the pillow forms from craft, hobby or department stores and then decorate them yourself. From little bitty pillows that can be used to decorate doorknobs to giant pillows that can be used as extra seating, pillows can transform the look of the room in an instant!

If you are looking for super fast and inexpensive ways to redecorate your home, don't overlook the pillow. In hundreds of shapes and sizes and every color under the sun, pillows are a wonderful way to add color to a dull room. They are so completely versatile you will want to get plenty of pillow forms to cover. Old pillows can be refurbished with new fabrics and colors, and there are even some very quick fixes for the sewing challenged!

Making pillows: squares, circles, rectangles, ovals, and bolsters are all the most obvious pillow shapes. You don't need to stop there; you can make any shape you want. There are even pillows that store blankets! There are so many possibilities; it's a good thing that you don't have to pick just one! You can even choose to have pillows in the shape of Sponge Bob, Dora, Monsters or any of your other favorite characters.

Perhaps, you already have plenty of pillows but you want to breathe new life into them. It's very easy thing to do even if you aren't super crafty. If you don't want to spend hours on a complex makeover project, consider these simple ideas: make two granny squares to fit the existing pillow, turn them at an angle and secure the corners of the granny squares. This idea also works using two bandanas and tying them together at the corners. You can even cover pillows with your old scarves and you can make pillows from old blankets or quilts and they are wonderful on a particularly chilly night. Why stop there; you can even make pillows from old sweat shirts or T-shirts. The possibilities are endless.

Some not so ordinary uses for pillows may be as simple as making giant pillows to use as extra seating for a large gathering. Large square or rectangle pillows are perfect for children and teens to sit on the floor and that will free up precious sofa space for older guests. Smaller pillows can be used for comfortable padding on metal chairs or unpadded barstools. Pillows made from old flannel backed table cloths and stuffed with plastic grocery store bags are perfect for the patio or deck.

You can also make pillows for use as decorations for your home. "Do Not Disturb" is a great pillow for a bedroom door and "sleeping" is perfect for a new baby's bedroom door. These little pillows can be made from felt scraps, cotton print fabrics or from fun fur, which can be found in the remnant table at your local fabric store.

You can make wonderful pillows for Fido and Fluffy. Using a Scotch guarded fabric that when doubled will be the right size for your dog, simply stitch up the sides and stuff with grocery bags. You can do the same thing for a cat, but toss in a little cat nip to attract the cat. Cats love the pillow even more if you stuff it with plastic bags so it will crinkle when they touch it. Tossing in a fabric softener sheet will help eliminate odors!

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