Coming up on this episode of 'Designed to the Nines,' I show you how to make a designer
feather pillow with the piping.
But we're breaking some rules so viewer discretion is advised.
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Anyone who really knows me knows that I'm a rule follower.
I like to follow the rules.
I like to do things the right way.
But sometimes rules were meant to be broken, and this is one of those times.
You really like to follow all the sewing rules out there, you might want to cover your eyes
because I'm going to ... Oh!
I know I'm going to get some comments on this.
But we're breaking some rules.
And it's all in the name of saving time, saving money, saving fabric, and it will still come
out looking amazing and everybody will be like, "Whoa, you made that?"
Anyways, let's get started.
Here's what you're going to need in the way of supplies.
First, you're going to want to start out with some home décor fabric.
This is how you save some money on it.
First of all, if you can find one of those amazing warehouses that sells home décor
fabric for super cheap ... those are amazing, those are my favorite.
I have yet to find one here in the Orlando area.
So if you know of one hit me up in the comments and help a girl out, because I am dying to
find a good place to get home décor fabric for super, super cheap.
But if you don't have that I'm going to help you out.
Here's what I did.
I went to Joann's and I found this in the remnant section.
It's 23 inches.
It's just enough to do a pillow, especially with our cheater method, and I got it for
less than $1.
Isn't that cute?
$1. Okay?!
How I did that is remnants are already 50% off the regular price, and then on top of
it, they were having a sale yesterday where they had added an additional 75% off.
So I got this for less than a buck.
Such a score!
I am so excited about it.
And then you're going to need a pillow.
I prefer a down pillow.
This is one that I already had that I inherited when I bought this house.
Didn't like the cover, so now I'm putting a cute cover on.
But the ways you can save money on this is ... at, like, Ross they sell them every day.
I see them for 6.99.
If you hate the cover, just take it off and we'll put on something cute.
But if there's a nice down pillow, grab it for 6.99.
That's a deal.
I've even been known to pick them up at thrift stores before.
Like, if they've been sitting on a granny's couch covered in plastic ... I try to find
those.
But I inspect them very heavily.
I unzip the zipper, look for any stains, smell it, look it over really thoroughly.
I'm pretty particular with that.
Okay.
Then you're going to need a measuring tape thread.
Get good thread.
I just found if you use the cheap stuff, it will skip the stitches.
It will be a nightmare, and it's just worth getting good thread.
Especially when you're working with heavier fabrics which home décor fabrics typically
are.
So just pick up a good thread.
A measuring tape, scissors, some pins, and then cording.
Now when I first started, I used more of this.
You can see ... this is like a bias tape piping.
But I'm going to show you how to use it with just regular cording so you can get that.
This is 3/32 cable cord.
I prefer a 5/32 but they were out, so I just picked this up and this will work.
This is ... I used a coupon and this was less than 59 cents a yard.
And so, super cheap.
So all in all, my project's only going to be a few bucks.
But even if you had to buy everything and you were able to find a good deal on some
home décor fabric, you could do this for less than $10 for a professional feather down
pillow.
It's a steal!
So let's get started.
I'm going to show you how I go about cutting it.
And so for all of you who don't like to break the rules, you're going to want to turn away
for a second.
Okay, so the first thing you're going to want to do before you start cutting your fabric
is measure the dimensions of your pillow.
So I've got a measuring tape here, it's a flexible one.
And we're going to measure it from seam to seam.
Mine is 20 inches.
Now, mine's really nice and full so I'm going to add an inch and a half on either side for
a three quarter seam allowance.
But if yours is kind of flat, you can make it smaller and that will fill it up a little
bit more.
Okay, so you can see that I measured it to 21.5 inches right here.
And then we're going to just cut ... hopefully have some nice cutting scissors.
It makes all the difference.
And then we'll just keep moving this down.
And so what I'll do sometime to make sure that everything's nice and square is I will
fold it on the triangle ... and use that as my cutting guide.
This is our first square, and I'm going to use this as a pattern.
Okay, so this is where I big time cheat.
And I know that this part is going to get a lot of comments from people who are purists.
Yes, I know this rule.
I'm just breaking it.
It's okay.
What they typically do for piping is cut it on the bias.
Now what that means is cut it on a diagonal.
You get more stretch that way, but it takes up so much more fabric and it takes time in
lining it out.
I have found in my experience the piping doesn't matter all that much, and it being on an angle
or not.
So what I am going to do is I'm going to make it from my scraps.
I'm going to piecemeal it together and ... honestly you guys, it will be fine.
Trust me.
Okay.
So what we need is about an inch and a half of fabric.
I fudge on this all the time, so I kind of eyeball it a lot of times.
So we're going to make about 86 inches worth of piping ...20, 40, 60, 80....
Got that right.
And then we're going to need some seam allowances in there, so I would ... on the safe side,
cut like 90-92 inches worth of fabric in whatever direction you want.
I mean, there's some times when it might matter a little bit, like, with stripes or things
like that.
But more often than not, it really doesn't matter.
So let's cut away.
So what I really love about home décor sewing is that it is straight stitching at its finest.
This project is definitely something that if you have some basic sewing skills, you
can do it.
So I've got my strips cut out for my piping.
Ideally, I would have had one more inch and then I would have only had to cut two of these.
But I'm going to have about four or five pieces.
I've got some short ones.
I promise you it's going to be fine.
Nobody's even going to know.
So we're going to just put these together, right sides together.
And then I'm going to do a 5/8 seam.
Then I'm going to iron them flat in the middle so that they're super crisp, super tight,
and it lays as flat as possible.
Okay, so I've ironed that flat in the center and you can see ... Honestly, that doesn't
look bad at all, does it?
Okay.
So that's our seam.
Now before we do work with cording, I'm going to switch out my foot from a traditional presser
foot to a zipper foot.
And this will just help with the piping.
You just kind of lift up with the lever and it's different on every machine.
But basically the same.
Okay, so we're going to take our piping here and we are going to put it in the center of
the fabric.
Then I just put it in the machine and do a straight stitch baste.
That's about all you will be able to see poking out of the pillow.
So as you can see, it doesn't matter.
Cutting it on a bias, cutting it in scraps ... It's all going to look good when it's
all said and done.
'Cause hardly any of it is showing.
I'm going to bast this onto one side of the pillow, and I'm not even going to pin.
This is just better.
You're just going to have to take my word for that.
And we're going to start about two inches in, and you'll see why in a second.
And we're just going to bast this on.
Okay, now when we get to the corner I'm going to make a snip.
Maybe a couple just so that it goes around the corner easier.
When you think it's going to line up, shove the needle down, leave the needle in, turn it.
And just keep going.
We are almost at the end and I wanted to show you why we left that two inches to begin with
and what we are going to do to finish this off.
So what we're going to do is ... We didn't start sewing and we left like two inches at
the beginning.
Okay?
So what we're going to do is with this excess cord, we are going to overlap it.
You can see that the stitching starts here.
I'm going to bring it maybe another half inch.
This you can eyeball, but then we're going to cut off our cording.
And then we are going to open it up, and you can use the seam ripper if you want.
I just have these scissors handy, so I'm just going to do that.
So we've opened this up a couple of inches, okay?
And what we're going to do is we can see that we have piping in our piece here 'till right
about there.
So without cutting the fabric, we are just going to cut out this cording leaving the
fabric intact.
And we're going to discard that.
What we're going to do is we're going to fold this back in half.
We're going to wrap this around the other piping that we left unfinished, and then we're
going to sew it down.
And what you can see is then we'll have a really nice seam on the bottom that I'm sure
all of our skeptics who are cursing my name will really appreciate.
So I wanna show you ... That is our finished seam.
So that looks a lot better than just kind of crisscrossing the edges which I've seen
a lot of people do kind of in the corner.
They just kind of crisscross them.
It's less bulky.
And it just has a more finished professional look when it's all said and done, and that
is sure to make our by-the-book seamstresses happy.
So up to this point, I haven't used any pins.
It's now time to attach our other side of the fabric.
So what I'm going to do is you start by pinning all the corners together, right sides together
of course.
I'm using my breast cancer awareness pins because it's a cause close to my heart.
So now we're going to find the bottom.
We're going to mark our start and stop points.
So I usually do that about yay apart and pin the start and stop location 'cause this is
where we'll insert our pillow.
So I've got this all pinned up ready to go, and we are going to start sewing around the
edges.
Now this is where the zipper foot comes real handy because it has a little lip and it allows
the piping to feed right underneath it really well.
I'm going to set this down a little bit since it's more of a finished stitch.
I put it on a three because it's still kind of thick.
Okay, so what I'm doing with my finger is holding it in place making sure that our stitching
is going to be as close as possible to the piping.
Okay, so we have finished sewing it on.
Of course, we left our gap to get the pillow in.
At this point, you could zig zag the edges.
That would be a really nice thing to do to finish it off.
What we do on the corners now is we clip them off on a diagonal, so when we turn it right
side in on itself, there won't be a lot of excess.
And we just flip it right sides out and see how we did.
This is always interesting.
Oh, my word.
Yeah.
This is going to be just fine.
That my friends is exactly why I don't waste the time, energy, or the fabric cutting my
piping on a bias.
'Cause when it's all said and done, it looks just fine.
Let's stuff the pillow.
Even it out a little bit.
Make sure it fits good.
We need to do something on the bottom.
The right way to do this is to pin it off and do a channel stitch by hand, but I am
going to break that rule.
I'm going to just sew it shut with my machine, and what I try to do is just sew it as close
as I can to the edge while still catching the fabric.
It's on the bottom so you never see it.
So I'm fine with that.
All right, there you have it.
Our down pillow with piping.
It looks professional and I'm super happy with it.
Honestly, you and I are the only ones who need to know all the ways we cheated.
If you cringed through every second of this video, feel free to leave your angst in the
comment section below.
But I'd really like to hear any comments on what was your favorite hack on this pillow
project.
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