Art of Decorative Pillows

I've been making pillows for as long as I can remember, because they were an easy project that my mom and grandmother taught me early on. I went through various phases of pillow making. When I was in junior high, I made about 10 pillows of varying shapes and sizes to go with my pink and light blue quilt grandma made me. Some of them were pieced, I had a few long round ones that my sister and I called "candy pieces," and I even made one out of an old embroidered button up shirt (it had butterflies, my favorite!!!).

When I moved into my dorm room for college a few years ago, I made simple pillows that matched my cheap comforter out of purple scraps and corduroy. Sewing up 3 and 3/4 sides and then stuffing after you turn? Can't get much easier, well so I thought.

Recently, I found a pattern to make envelope pillow slips for my decorative pillows. I absolutely love this pattern (its very quick and simple) and it takes like 20 minutes (at most, and I'm often distracted with my netflix shows too!) to whip up a cute pillow. PLUS its extremely helpful for me since there is German Shepherd love, aka fur, everywhere, it doesn't mean washing all my decorative pillows each time they are full of fur... just the slip covers that come off very easily. This method is even more simple than stuffing a pillow and much more efficient as far as me keeping them clean.

My German Shepherd uses pillows like a human :)

A lot of times you can find cheap pillow forms at the big craft stores too, I found mine in a pack of two for next to nothing... and a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a bunch of decorative pillows from the store.

I love the bright colors on the right so much! I made a few pillow covers from that fabric

The big green pillow was a store bought pillow that my German Sheppard lovingly tore to shreds (she didn't like my design taste I guess, and I decided to go with more yellow and blue rather than green anyway). I found some wonderful yellow fabric at an antique store with the coolest booth. It was hemmed and cut in a circle in one part, but I used it to cover my partner's mother's family heirloom stool that she gave or lent us, I'm not quite sure which.

Since I had left over fabric and it was already part of the blue and yellow theme, it was a perfect choice for a pillow too. 

Here are the colors all together

all my lovely pillows