Pillow Tutorial Round-Up
Irene sought out the very best of the best pillow tutorials for us today! Whether you’re looking for something quilted, textured or geometric, it’s there. If you want to add a bow, try out a fancy closure or make something special for a lucky kid, it’s there. If you’ve wanted to try it, it’s there! Bookmark the page and enjoy. If we missed your favorite pillow tutorial be sure to add a link in the comments below!
1. Personalized 2. ZigZag 3. Fabric Printing 4. Vintage Hankie
1. Sham Style 2. Fancy Frills 3. Crochet Edge
4. French Seam 5. Embroidered 6. ZigZag Edge
1. Stay Put Envelop 2. Easy Slipcover 3. Front Buttons
4. Invisible Zipper
1. Simple Scented 2. Shaped
1. Rows of Roses 2. Felt Petals 3. Floral Yo-Yos 4. Wedding Rings
1. Gathered Muslin 2. Gathered Pouf 3. Center Button
1. Chevrons 2. Argyle 3. Diamonds
4. Herringbone
1. Clouds & Rain 2. Rainbows 3. Dream Moon Phases
4. Pet Pillow 5. Clock
6. Chalkboard
1. Felted Scallops & Flowers 2. Inspired Bolster 3. Sleepy Floor
4. Blooming Deer
1. Seashell 2. Spray-Painted Wheat 3. Lazy Daisy
4. Burlap Flag
1. Quilted Pocket 2. Four-Square Bunny 3. Pajama Pocket
4. Sleepover
1. Charm Square 2. Leaf Placemat 3. Fat Quarter
1. Randomly Pieced 2. Angel Four-Patch 3. Valentine Hearts
4. Mod Floor Mosaic
1. Table into Bench 2. Knit Sweater 3. T-Shirt Weaving
4. Stuffing with Bags
1. Buttoned Circle 2. Patriotic Star 3. Candy Hearts
4. Relaxing Neck
1. Delicate Doily 2. Perfect Pintuck 3. Ruffled Rows
4. Faux Chenille Valentine
1. Side Ties 2. Elegant Cases 3. Big Bow
4. Front Bow-Ties
1. Ric Rac 2. Pom Pom 3. Decorator
4. Piping
Enter our Pillow Contest! Create a pillow this month and enter to win some fabulous prizes.
You can also comment on any post this week for your chance to win one of these great prizes below, courtesy of Robert Kaufman Fabrics:
1 fat quarter pack of Betty Dear, 5 Kona Cotton color cards, 1 fat quarter pack of Night & Day in the Summer Colorstory, 10 sets of 5 Kona charm packs
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Enough with the awesome pillows already! A girl only has so much time to sew!!
Great job, Irene!!!
What a great resource! Bookmarking.
oh what a great pillows and i am going to try to make some of theme(afcourse when i have time, that is always not enough!)
Whoa! What an amazing list of tutorials for us! Thanks Sew Mama Sew! Forever bookmarked!
I’m blogging the making of my pillow at my site – and I was just writing about that striped fabric into chevron by Dana at Made! Love that – so clever!
What I was having trouble finding is a good tutorial on piecing chevron stripes – but it looks like you found one for me! Thanks again!
Wow! What fun. I liked so many of them–more things to add to my sewing list!
Fuel the fire! Last night I spent too much time staring at fabric and wondering how I really wanted to pull it all together! =)
Ooooh, some great tutorials!
I would love to win the Betty Dear FQ pack! I love that line! Thanks for the chance.
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Help! My house isn’t big enough for all the pillows I now want to make!
Oh I’ve already bookmarked this! Great!
great roundup! thanks
So many lovely pillows! Thanks for all the links to the great tutorials!
How many great ideas! This will be really useful!
whoa!!! pillowtastic! you ladies have outdone yourself with pillow research. what an awesome resource. bookmarked.
Lovely pictures, lots of inspiration
Great inspiration.
Oh wow! All those pillows – now which one or ten to make? Thanks!
What a fabulous list of inspiring projects and techniques! Thank you.
These are some fantastic pillows, thanks for including me! Off to go do some bookmarking!
Thanks for such a thorough list!
Thanks for so many great ideas – i am inspired to make more pillows!
LOVE it!
soooo great !!! Thank you for that !!!!
Wow, Irene, this list is fantastic! I don’t know where to start. Thank you so much for doing this!
I can’t wait to get my hands on this book — MORE than enough to keep me busy in February and many months to come.
Pillows! they’re addictive! i must be brave and try something new…the invisible zipper!
This is the jackpot of pillow tutorial techniques. I am still working on my entry. So far this has been lots of fun.
Wow! Thank you for all of the great links!
I have been looking for some pillow tutorials and ideas. These all look great. Thanks for the inspirations.
Great ideas! And thanks for the chance!
I love changing up our pillows! This page is one to bookmark!
Thank you for this wonderful collection of pillow ideas and tutorials!
I love the floor pillow!
Thanks for the great tutorials!
You’ve inspired me to try my hand at a pillow. The prizes are just icing on the cake. Thanks.
Oh my! There really is something for everyone here.
such fabulous pillows!! i need to make so many of them!
Perfect timing! We just moved and decided to ‘start fresh’ with most everything and I have been looking for some pillow inspiration. I particularly like the gathered ones, and the flower ones and the tuxedo ruffle one and the applque and, and..well I like all of them! Your contest to make one this week and enter has inspired me to actually get started to. Thank you so much!
This post is going straight to my favorites bar! Thanks!
There are some fabulous ideas there! Thanks for grouping them all together.
Thank you for this list! I’m bookmarking it, because there are quite a few of these I want to try.
Oh my goodness! What a fantastic roundup!!! Thank you!
I haven’t sewn in soooooo long!! I need to get out my machine and start having some fun. I really want to learn how to quilt. Would love to win the flowered fat quarter pack. Thank you!
I love the pillow patterns! Will be busy this week making one (or a few!). Thanks!
so many ideas, thank you!
What a brilliant resource this is!
That is a lot of tutorials!
These pillow tutorials are fabulous. Now I just need some time to read and stitch. Many thanks.
This is a GREAT list! I am bookmarking it for future projects! Thanks!
Wow. This is a ton of tutorials! Even I should be able to figure out what I want to make.
This is amazing! thanks so much. I really want to try the piping and the pockets.
I’m loving all these pillows! I’ve already made so many, but now I think I’m going to have to make some more!
The clock pillow is great! I vow that my toddler will at some point learn how to read a clock and not just tell time by looking at a cell phone. This might do the trick.
What a great list of pillow tutorials. Where do I begin?
Wow, thanks! Definitely going to bookmark this post for future reference.
I’m loving them all… where to start… I like the clock pillow, that would make a great gift!
Love the pocket pillows. Thanks for all the inspiration!
wow! Love the quilted ones best!
very useful list, thanks!
WoW! Pillow City! So inspired to make pillows! Thank you!
What a great big list of pillow tutorials!! I’m off to make some!
Who knew there were so many variations for making a pillow. Thank you for inspiring me to try something different3
Wow, these pillows are great! It’s amazing to look at the diversity here!
Jeepers…I dunno how pillows I really need…haha…running out of stuffing!
Lots of lovely ideas. Thanks!
This is a great list! I just wish I had more places to put pillows so I could make all of these!!
WoW its very very beautiful.
Wow, that’s alot of tutorials! Thanks so much for putting that together.
Wow, so many options I don’t know where to start.
Wow, that’s a huge bunch of tutorials to fir everybody taste! Thanks for that.
Thank you so much! I just ordered fabric to make new pillows for my living room, and these tutorials are going to give me some great ideas
Thanks! Just what I need, more ideas!
thanks so much for all the pillow tutorials! there’s one I like especially!
I think I’ll be giving everyone pillows for Christmas. I like to start early.
Wow!! What a great collection of pillow tutorials!
I love cushions and I can never get enough of them (ask my suffering boyfriend ^^). There are some seriously awesome techniques out there and I can’t wait to try them!!
Great job pulling these together! I just fell in love with two of the pillows and am just itching to make both *rightthisveryminute*…but I’m at work and my boss would not dig that. Maybe it will snow tomorrow…
Whoa, I’m kind of in awe. There are so many awesome designs, and I love the way you categorized them and gave them all thumbnails. It makes it so easy to browse!
What a fantastic resource!
An amazing collection, great job! That must have been quite a lot of research! Definitely adding some of these to my to do list
Oh my word, I am head over heals for the gather muslin pillow. That is my project for nap time today! Thank you for all the ideas!
Great roundup! I love the variety and am definitely adding many of these to my list!
Love the tutorials, so many ideas. Love the creativity.
Love the beautiful selections, check out my Rose pillow,from last summer, can’t get to the link right now, I’ll post my pic soon! Thanks for the great ideas and contest!
Great Roundup!!
What great tutorials AND a great giveaway!!! I am finally going to one of Sew Katie Did’s zipper classes next week to nail this one down!!! Thanx again!
Yay! A tutorial round up-my favorite!
WOW! So many tutorials that I need to make pillows from now!
This is fantastic, great job of finding all the tutorials, I am definately making the sleepy floor pillow and the quilted pocket. Thanks!
thank you for categorizing and all the pillow ideas were wonderful!
Wow! Great roundup. I don’t know where to start!
Thank you, Irene! That is an absolutely fantastic roundup, and I am off to check out the herringbone pillow right now.
Wow, that is a comprehensive list!
Thanks so much for putting all these links in one place!
What great inspiration! I have made some quilts as babyshower gifts recently and thought a small pillow to match would be the perfect way to use up the leftover quilt scrap pieces.
Great links! I’d never thought of a pocket pillow before ~ my kids would love that!
oh, thanks for putting these all in one place. awesome!
These are all awesome! Thanks!
Wow, what an amazing tutorial round-up. I’m book-marking this one for sure!
You’re tempting me to actually make a pillow — and I’m not really a pillow girl!
Love the roundup! Good job doing a thorough research, Irene!
So many pillows, so little time!!!
Oh so many fun choices!
Wow, thanks for gathering all these for us!
Wow! A great list of tutorials!
Wow! Some of these would look great in my baby’s nursery!
Thank you for this amazing list! My daughter has been asking for a pillow pet for months now..maybe I’ll make her a unique one of her own instead of one that everyone else has!
So many ideas, so little time!!! I hope I at least get one entry into the contest, it would be good practice for me, and they are GREAT prizes!!!
Great post…so much inspiration! Thank you!
Thanks for incuding my “Patriotic Star” in the round-up
Oh my gosh – too many to choose from!! I can’t decide which I like best!
Bookmarked!! thanks this is great.
Wow — this is amazing! Thank you!!
Love all of these pillow tutorials! My mind is churning with ideas.
And then there are Katie’s pillows – you have to see them:
http://matsutakeblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/got-it.html
and
http://matsutakeblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/love.html
and
http://matsutakeblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/typewriter-key-pillow.html
Beautiful and ingenious and I unashamedly covet them.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all the pillows!!!!!!
Thanks for having them in one place for me to drool over.
I have a tutorial on my blog for a simple zipper closure pillowcase: http://comeandseetheseitz.com/2009/11/03/simple-zipper-closure-pillowcase-tutorial/
It really is fool-proof!
whoa is that an amazing list! I’ll have to bookmark it to come back whenever I need a pillow idea!
Are you kidding me? Amazing to have all of those pillow tutorials at my fingertips…
I made my first pillow in December and loved it! I wish I had more couch space to accommodate all the pillows I want to make! Maybe I’ll just buy more furniture…
Wow, what a great roundup! Thanks for all your hard work and including my pillowcase!
Wow! What a great round up! Thank you for featuring my hammock pillow tutorial. I’m bookmarking this round-up for future pillow projects!
WOW!! What a roundup! Thanks for all the ideas and tips
WOW!
Such great ideas…now where to start?!?
Wow! Such an amazing collection of tutorials to try!
Wow. So many fantastic and inspiring tutorials. Thank you for gathering them in one spot!
I’m literally swooning over this post. I just want to leave work right now so I can home and make my submission for the pillow contest!
I love collections like this. You are awesome!
Thanks!
How fun to ‘see’ all these different kinds of pillows!! Thanks for putting it together so well.
ooo, thanks for the linkage.
great group of pillows!!!!!
Really, so many! How to choose one to try!?!?
waow!!!! Thank you very much for all these wonderful tutorials!!!
I know what I’m doing this weekend!
Such a thorough list, thank you!
Thanks for the roundup of all those pillows. I am bookmarking this for sure.
I loved the spray paint pillows. I have to give that one a try.
Wow – these projects have given me so many ideas! I especially love the flower pillows
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Amazing roundup! Thank you.
Yay for tutorials!!! I am always looking for more and now I don’t have to search for two hours to find one that I LOVE. These should keep me busy forever. Thanks Irene!!
Wow thanks for all the research you put into this! Definitely a great resource for us.
What a great list. Thanks!
Thank you so much for all the great tips & ideas! This is already bookmarked & I can’t wait to try them all. Now to figure out which one to do first!!
How many pillows does one couch need? How do I make all of them and what to do with them all???
Now where am I going to put all these gorgeous pillows? LOL
This is great! I did not see all of these pillow tutorials so it is really handy to have them all here so I can check out the ones I missed the first time around!
Fabulous! Have bookmarked and earmarked!
Thanks
Lorraine
So many pillows. So much inspiration!
Thanks for rounding all these up in one place … you cut down my internet surfing time for today!!
Seriously, who knew there could be so many fabulous pillows! So fun to look at all of these.
I love the gathered ones!
I had no idea there were so many different types of pillows in the world! Beautiful!
Thank you for such a well thought out and categorized list of resources.
This is an awesome list–thanks!
Awesome pillows!
Wow! What an amazing set of tutorials. Bookmarking now. Thanks for the inspiration.
Wow, so many tutorials. I love the kids’ pillow collection the best.
Great inspiration, thanks!
I think it is time to whip up some new slipcovers for the living room couch pillows! There is so much inspiration here!
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Wow! That wonderful pillows! How much inspiration, thanks!
Jessy.
Everytime I see a quilted pillow I think “I need to try making one”. Thanks for these tutorials. Now I really need to try making one!
A great resource! Thanks!!
Well, I think there are all the pillows I’ll ever need here, including a couple I already had plans to make
Thanks for the round up.
Great List of Tutorials – Thanks Irene!
I think I love them all. Definitely bookmarked. Maybe for birthdays and/or Christmas presents?
Wow – thanks for putting these all in one place – what a great resource!
Thanks for the links to all the great pillow tutorials. My only question is, where to start?
Thanks for including my pillow!!
Awesome! Thanks!!!
Oh me, oh my! I have just discovered a new blog, a new resource, and my head is swimming! I’m so thankful for these pillow ideas…..better get busy sewing some of them!
This is an awesome collection! Thanks!!!!
what a great selection of pillows.
Wowie! Bookmarking this page asap. Thanks so much!
What a mine of ideas!
Love the vintage hankie pillows!
Wow – so many nice pillows. I love the ones that are appliqued
Wow, that is a lot of pillow happiness! Thanks for the great resource.
Wow, I speechless, what a wonderful group of pillows!
It wouldn’t let me leave a response yesterday, but I wanted you to know that I totally bookmarked this page. Wonderful! I don’t stand a chance for the contest, but I can still create for myself, right?
thanks for the lovely tutorials – you’re a wonderful resource
An excellent collection! So many great ideas, now to find the time…
Love all these neat pillows!! wanting to pull out my machine this weekend and make some!! so cool that i recognize several of them from blogs i follow! thanks for the feature!
I need to get to making some pillows! These are all so beautiful and so inspiring!
I love this! Thanks so much for posting about all these amazing pillow tutorials. I’ve been wanting to make some new ones for my living room and bedroom. Thanks!
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This list is awesome — thanks so much! I’m definitely making that round pillow!
wow, what an amazing list! I totally want to make everyone relaxing neck pillows for Christmas next year, and I can make the delicate doilies one since I inherited my Great Grandmother’s doily collection. Thank you very much for putting those all together!
Irene did an amazing job! All of this in one place is fabulous!
Thanks for making this easy for us.
Too many great pillows to choose from! I need to bookmark this page for inspiration.
Dang i thought your blog was killer, gave me a car load of information, i never knew, thanks blogger.
What a wonderful complation! I liked the crocheted edge the best. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for highlighting a couple of my pillows. I’m honored — they are among beautiful company!
Lots of great pillow ideas, thanks!
definitely bookmarking this page – thanks for the roundup!
So many fun ideas! You’ll have us making pillows the rest of the year!
I’ve got ideas coming out of my ears with this pillow round-up. Y’all are amazing.
So much fun, so little time!