How to quickly and inexpensively update decorative pillows

Admit it, you get tired of looking at the same thing all the time, using the same things. That's how I am too. To lift my mood, I change something in the apartment: curtains, bedspreads, pillows...
The other day I decided to update two small decorative pillows that decorate the bed. The tapestry pillowcases in which my thoughts were previously packed have faded and become a little tired. I rummaged through the bins and found a nice fabric - curtain satin. Leftover from sewing curtains once. I didn't have much of this satin, so I decided to sew the back of the pillowcases from another fabric - furniture fabric.

Will need

I buy this scrap for various crafts and sewing at a furniture fabric store. To make new pillowcases I also needed:

• scissors, ruler, pen, chalk;
  
• threads, needles for chopping fabric;
  
• sewing machine, overlock, iron.

Updating pillows

To begin with, I measured the pillow: length - 50 cm, width - 36 cm. Since I had a narrow strip of curtain fabric, I sewed it, treated the seam with an overlocker and stitched it along the front side.I also processed the edges of the workpiece so that the fabric would not fray when sewing. I ironed everything out.
Now you can start cutting. I decided to make pillowcases with “ears” (the pillowcase is stitched around the entire perimeter at a certain distance from the edge) 3 cm wide.

To do this, I cut out two rectangles from curtain satin measuring 58 by 44 cm (on each side you need to add 1 cm to the size of the pillow for the seam and 3 cm for the “ears”, it turns out 8 cm). These will be the front parts of the pillows.

We cut out four rectangles from furniture fabric: two – measuring 44 by 54 cm (the main part of the pillowcase should be smaller by the width of one “ear” and seam, i.e. 4 cm) and two – measuring 44 by 20 cm (this is for the valve , so as not to sew in a lock or other fastener).
On each piece of furniture fabric, I processed the edge along the side with a length of 44 cm. I simply turned the fabric inward by 1 cm and stitched it on a machine.

I pinned blanks from curtain fabric and furniture fabric, placing them “facing” each other. First I laid the flap, and on it the base of the back side of the pillowcase, with the processed edges facing each other.

I sewed the pillowcases along the entire perimeter, maintaining a distance of 1 cm from the edge of the fabric. I turned the sewn pillowcase inside out and pinned the edge again with needles so that the fabric would not slip and it would be easier to sew.


I stitched each pillowcase along all sides at a distance of 3 cm from the edge. For a straighter stitch, you can draw a line along the ruler with chalk.






I ironed the pillowcases again, but only satin fabric; it is not advisable to iron furniture fabric. I dressed the pillows in ready-made decorative pillowcases, and they sparkled beautifully with new pink satin.