Quilted Pillows

New pillows are an easy way to breathe new life into a room. Since spring is around the corner, I felt like our living room needed a few new touches. So I came up with these two easy pillow designs.

I decided to stay with our neutral color scheme of brown and beige, and added spring green. For the first pillow I used Robert Kaufman’s Kona solids in Natural, Cobblestone and Spring.

After I finished the pillow top, I machine quilted parallel lines all over using beige quilting thread, about an inch apart. For the back of the pillow cover I made a simple envelope style backing. Once I finished that I completed the pillow by adding the binding. I used Essentials Criss Cross Texture Burnt Browns by Graphic 45 for Wilmington Prints.

For my next pillow I used Robert Kaufman’s Kona solids Natural and Cobblestone again, as well as a textured brown from my fabric stash. Unfortunately I don’t have the name of that anymore.

Once I pieced the pillow top, I machine and hand quilted the top. I love the look of big quilting stitches, so I alternated it with machine stitches. I used beige DMC cotton perle 8 for the hand quilting and beige quilting thread for the machine quilting.

For the back of the pillow cover I made a simple envelope style backing again. I used Essentials Criss Cross Texture Burnt Browns by Graphic 45 for Wilmington Prints for the binding.

There you have it! Two new pillows!

While I was at it and in a pillow-making mood, I made two more pillows! I figured you can never have enough, right? The comfy and soft type that invites you to sit, relax and drink a cup of coffee. Or maybe take a nap.