Teach Me Tuesday: No-Sew Pillows

The holidays are finally upon us. Things are moving at a frenzied pace. It’s only December 1st and I don’t feel like I can breathe. My to-do list is piling up high and it’s all I can do just to keep my head above water. At the end of the day I’m just exhausted, and I don’t feel like I have much to show for it.

Oh, you, too?

Luckily, with solutions like Lori of My Faerie Window’s Easy Peasy Pillows, we won’t have to give up much of our precious time on things like getting our homes ready for the invasion of the Visitors our loved ones. I know most of your eyes start to glaze over when I mention sewing, so I’m not even going to say it today.

“No-sew pillows?” you say. “Do tell!”

Lori explains:

I wanted to share with you today a really simple idea for creating pillows that I think are just lovely. The best part of all is that it only takes minutes to make your pillows and there is no sewing involved. This is not a tutorial per se because I whipped these up a while ago, and I am
not showing you the step by step. But, they are so easy you won’t need that.

What you do need is:
1} a pack of large sized fancy napkins from TJ Maxx, Tuesday Morning, etc
2} fabric glue … I swear by Fabritac
3} pillow inserts/forms
4} rubber bands
5} your choice: ribbons and trims

Here are the pillows I made:

For the one in the back, I simply wrapped my pillow form with the napkin, and then secured it on the sides where it was open and the fabric was overlapped with two dots of fabric glue. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that it is still open somewhat; if that does bother you, then just run a line of fabric glue all down the side to completely close it off. Don’t get too close to the edge with your fabric glue, or it might ooze out and you will not be happy.

For the “Tootsie Roll” pillow, I wrapped my napkin all around my pillow form, and then secured the ends with rubber bands. I tied a pretty sheer ribbon over the rubber bands to hide them.

To finish the pillows off, I added a pretty rose to the larger pillow and a little deco clip to the “Tootsie Roll.”

Now, how easy is that? If you try this please let me know because I want to see your pillows!

Super easy! How cute would it be to use some Christmas themed napkins to make holiday pillows? Thanks for the inspiration, Lori!