How to sew soft pillow letters with your own hands

Pillows in the form of different letters or whole words are the currently popular trend that can decorate a nursery, adult bedroom, become the most original gift for any holiday.

Today we sew a pillow letter.

The following materials are required to make soft pillow letters.

• Fabric - it will take so much to have enough for the front, back, side of the future cushion. If all sides are different colors, then the textiles will need appropriate.

• Threads - they are sewn together by hand or on a typewriter. The seams are made of internal, invisible or decorative, which are independent decoration.

• The filler is synthetic winterizer, foam rubber, holofiber, cotton wool.

• Decor - colored yarn, bows, ribbons, thermo stickers, beads, rhinestones, etc.

The tools needed are a pencil, a ruler, pattern paper, a piece of chalk that will be used to cut patterns on the fabric, sharp scissors, pins, to connect individual parts before sewing, sewing needles, and a tape. The latter, for the most part, can be replaced by a sewing machine, an overlock, with which the seams are swept over. Decorative embroidery is done both manually and by machine.

Patterns of letters of the Russian and English alphabet

Ready-made patterns of letters-pillows can be downloaded from the Internet, enlarge, print on a printer. The easiest way to draw everything you need in the graphical editor is the “paint”, adjusting it to the required dimensions. Products of any height are suitable for a gift, but for interior decor, and even less sleep, a letter is made at least 50 by 35 cm., The width of each “leg” is 10-15 cm., The thickness is 10-13 cm.

It is also easy to draw letters for pillows by hand - it can be a single letter or the name completely. To transfer the pattern to the fabric, the latter is folded in half with the “face” inward (if both sides are of the same textile) or two pieces of different material are put on one another.

When creating the side parts, it is required to measure all sides of the patterns with a ruler (for “angular” letters) or elastic measuring tape (for rounded, “uppercase”).

What fabric to take for sewing

Many soft and non-woven materials are suitable for the soft letter of the pillow:

• linen;
• cotton;
• felt;
• wool;
• flock;
• silk;
• fleece;
• flannel;
• faux fur, etc.

For small items, pieces of cloth are used, left over from the dress, bed linen, baby diapers. The material is selected depending on the purpose of the object, the design of the room. Children's small letters-pillows are sewn from soft flannel, bikes, jeans, velvet, knitwear will suit a teenager as a gift.

Classic or baroque interiors will be decorated with tapestry and velvet cushions, linen will be suitable for country music and leatherette for the loft.

How to prepare for the creation of personalized pillows letters

To give the birthday man not one soft nominal letter-pillow, but a completely "pillow name" will have to work hard.

How to make cute pillow-letters step by step.

• Create a sketch - "writing" letters may be different. Some lovers do not perform them individually, but cut out a whole word from fabric, which requires special skill.
• Based on the sketch to develop a full-size drawing.

• Cut individual parts - in front, back, sidewalls of paper, cardboard.
• Transfer the elements to the fabric, cut it, not forgetting the allowances for seams 1-2 cm.

• Fasten with pins or gently sweep the parts, leaving in the back bottom of the place for inserting the "stuffing".

• Unscrew the product.
• Proceed to stuffing - cut letters from foam rubber according to the available patterns or gently distribute inside the pads pieces of cotton wool, padding polyester, sewing waste.

• Secure the hole through which the pillow was filled with a neat secret stitch.

• Start decorating - embroider congratulations, flowers, butterflies on the surface, sew bows, colored buttons, paste doll eyes, sequins, etc.

If you plan to create a whole name, any other word of the letters-pillows, made with your own hands, it is desirable that all the letters were the same size. Machine embroidery is possible only on the fabric, but not on the finished product. For thin textiles, which keeps its shape poorly, flizelin is enclosed on the wrong side.

Tip: For letters of a simple form, such as “G”, “C”, “O”, “E”, etc., removable covers with a zipper are sometimes made.

Pillow letter as an element of room decor

Soft textile alphabet is a great educational game for kids, the decor of their room. Cushions must be made bright, soft, pleasant to the touch - they should not be deformed during compression. Products for the floor perform dense due to the greater amount of stuffing. Developmental, sensory objects, stuffed with buckwheat husks, make out bright buttons of different colors, shapes, soft stars, hearts, and other figures are sewn to them.

Large letters, which will be standing vertically, additionally supply a cardboard or wire inner frame. Small letters are made suspended - inside you can put bells that will ring when rocking on the ropes.

“Adult” interior with letters-pillows is more strict - the material of manufacture must be in harmony in color with the furniture upholstery, curtains, other indoor textiles. The word of several elements placed on the shelf, bed, back of the sofa. Letters perform one color, texture or alternate multi-colored through one.

For the design of romantic interiors, lace is inserted into the seam of the letter, fringe - this should be done at the stage of sweeping away the product. For a warm Scandinavian interior, individual parts can be knitted with needles or a crochet from colored yarn according to pre-made patterns.

Tip: Sometimes letters are stitched out, which are made oblique inlay to the tone of the product or contrast.

Conclusion

It is not difficult to sew pillow letters with your own hands, having the minimum skills of a seamstress, the simplest materials and tools. New, detailed workshops on making such gizmos appear daily on the pages of online magazines, as well as print publications on needlework. In the same way, pad figures and even simple hieroglyphs are made.

VIDEO: Master class on sewing letters-pillows.

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