Christmas Gift Pillow – Easy Sewing Project

Christmas Gift Pillow – Easy Sewing Project

Stitch up a festive pillow that looks like a Christmas gift to decorate your home for the Holidays!

What you need

Fabric, Silver Ribbon, Sewing Machine, Stuffing

Instructions

1. Cut our your fabric into 2 10×10″ squares. This makes the pillow small and cute but if you want a larger pillow, you’ll need to cut these squares out a bit larger.

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2. Cut 2 pieces of ribbon the same length as your pillow- 10″ for this pillow. Place them onto the top of ONE of the fabric squares in a cross and pin them down.

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3. Stitch them down onto the front of the fabric square, remove the pins.

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4. Place your 2 fabric squares right sides together and pin. Stitch around the outside 1/4″ away from the edge, going around every side but leaving about a 4″ opening on the bottom to flip right side out.

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5. Flip right side out.

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6. Stuff your pillow, being sure to get stuffing in the corners, stuffing it pretty firmly.

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7. Use a needle and thread to stitch up the bottom opening that you used to flip it right side out and stuff.

8. Cut a 10″ or longer piece of ribbon and tie it into a bow. Stitch (or glue) it onto the top front of your pillow.

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