Making Pillows from Placemats!
I was first inspired by an idea for pillow covers over at Centsational Girl. She found napkins and used them to make pillows – genius!
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So I’ve been on the lookout for pretty napkins, but I cannot seem to find any! We just don’t have great stores here in Canada like World Market, so often our shopping is so limited! Such a bummer!
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Yesterday the mini-suburbanites and I ventured out to Ikea! I love so many things there and I have to stop myself! Eye candy everywhere, but the pretty colours and flowers on these place mats immediately caught my attention. I wanted to buy them for our table setting, but with 3 messy eaters, white cloth place mats are just not in the cards!
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I looked more closely at them and saw they had 2 layers to them…what if I opened them up and stuffed them to make a pillow? Yes. Yes. Yes. I can do it! So I did. Here they are!
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A project that was completed in under an hour, and look how lovely they are! And the best part?! They each cost $2.99. These pillows all together cost $6. That’s right. 6 bucks. Can’t beat that!
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Gotta love inspiration!
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Here’s How To:
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With a seam ripper, open up your pillow along a short side. – – – – – – – |
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Using cotton batting, stuff, stuff, stuff. (I actually just took apart an extra bed pillow I had around) – – – – – – – |
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Ta Da! – – – – – – – |
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Purtay. – – – – – – – |
Love it.. It is just AMAZING!! i need to know how u did that again!! this looks reallly goood!!
Ooooooh, so pretty!!!
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They look fantastic!!
God I love Ikea..I can’t wait until our store opens here in Winnipeg 🙂
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Very pretty! We just went to IKEA last week and I picked up a tray and paper plates and napkins in that very pattern! Love this idea!
I can’t sew a lick, but I was looking at placemats at Home Goods today to see if my mom could make them into pillows for me. I really need to make a pilgrimage to Ikea soon. The closest is 3 hours away. Boo.
What a piece of cake! Great ideas! I love your blog. Stopping by from UBH11. Come stop by http://homesandbabies.blogspot.com
Found you from the UBP. I love all of your craftiness. Love the cute pillows. What is a birds nest cake?
Hope you can stop by.
God Bless,
Shelley
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that is so awesome!!