Ruffled pillow (from a bed-skirt)

Here’s the third pillow I made for my SYTYC Thrift Store Challenge.  I, like everyone else, love ruffles, and knew I needed at least one ruffled pillow.

So as I was looking at pillow at my local thrift store ran into the bedding rack!  And I found this perfect shade of green in a bed skirt!  Isn’t it lovely????

I know it doesn’t look green in these pictures, (grrrrr I need a new camera, but at this point I’d be happy if this one was working again, I hate not having a camera!) so you’ll just have to trust me, but it’s this great shade of jade that matches my back-splash as well as the jade in my granite counter-top.

I decided to use the edges as they were already hemmed, and I cut 4 inch strips from the bottom to use for the ruffles.

I also used the pillow as a template and cut out the main body.  This is for sewing the ruffles onto.

using the same pre-hemmed edges I cut out t large pieces for overlapping and turning into an envelope closure for my pillowcase.

using a washable pen (okay I’m lying, I couldn’t find my washable fabric pen, so this is just a normal pen.  Gah…  DON’T take that short cut, it shows when my ruffles move too much.).  Sew the ruffles onto the front of our new pillowcase.  I used my handy dandy ruffler.  One of my favorite purchases of this last year.  Love love LOVE it!  for this I set it to ruffle every 6th stitch and actually not very deep.  Just enough for a little ruffle action but not too much!

Here is the front finished…

Now, right sides together, pin the 2 pieces on the envelop closure onto the front. and sew around the entire outside.

And it’s finished!!!  A fun ruffled pillow!!!  No dealing with hems, LOVE it!

Don’t forget to check out the tutorials for the other pillows

1. rosette sweater pillow

2. elastic gathered sweater pillow

3. ruffled pillow

4. satin pintucked pillow

5. denim herringbone pillow

6. drop cloth pleated triangle pillow