Scrap fabrics pillow tutorial - modern improvisational style by Zen Chic
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Scrap fabrics pillow tutorial - modern improvisational style by Zen Chic
If you are anything like me you have quite some fabric scraps gathered over time. Let's make something modern out of it with an easy and fun technique - using improvisational piecing: Let's make a stylish pillow!
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We hall have boxes of scraps, don't we? And we all love pillows...
Love the pillow design. Gorgeous!
Love the solids with an accent of print fabric. Thanks for a great project!
Thank you! I'm glad you appreciated the design choice. 😊 - Brigitte
beautiful
I should also give a combination of prints and low volumes a try...
I like both a solid pillow and another with prints.
that‘s indeed the best option
I like to mix solid and prints.
Thank you for this project and others you have shared. I appreciate seeing how you break down your idea and come up with basic size of strips to be a pillow cover. The improv idea and demonstrating how you cut up your fabric was an ah-ha! moment for me, to see a solution to an idea brewing in my head. Just is wonderful to have gears click into place and see things in 3D that I could not visualize before. It means so much to my creative nature to be able to achieve and see an idea come to life at the sewing machine. Your inspiration has done that for me. I am most grateful for your time and generosity of spirit. Peace, Monica
Thank you so much Monica. I’m glad my little demo gave you some inspiration and I very grateful, you took the time to write this kind feedback!
First, I think this pillow is gorgeous and can hardly wait to see how the general style would look in my living room. I'll use white as you have, and a mix of prints and solids where you've used black. That's because I want to bring both pink and green into my living room, and I think a random prints that uses both colours would look better than just green solids and pink solids.
I can imagine how lively this will look!
This is a great way to use scraps. I would try prints also. Can't wait to try this. Thank you for sharing.
you‘re welcome!
Great pillow combinations and very creative! Did it use a plain color for the back?
Oh, just watched another one of your videos making the envelope closure and saw the back. Love it.
Yes, the back is just plain and has an envelope closure
Yes, I did complete the survey and this is exactly what I need! I love how you describe and show your inspiration piece...then make it into a pillow. I prefer a few more prints, but this is gorgeous!
thank you so much for that kind feedback 💕
I would absolutely love to buy your book, it would be a great addition to my quilting library, but it seems to be unavailable in Germany. Tried many different channels. Love your modern take on quilting and adore your fabrics. Will try this fabulous improv pillow next.
A combination.
That looks amazing!
Thank you!
Solids
my preference too (the are clear and support the already unpredictable piecing)
Great tutorial!!!!
I love your pillow! I think I would like to use red and black scraps. I hope I have enough.
It doesn‘nt need a lot.
Before sewing the four strips together, what is the dimension of each strip? Did you leave at 5" or cut down to 4"? What about selvage eating up the 4"? A little confused. :) Beautiful pillow!
I trimmed them off to a 4 1/2“ strip, Sewn together they add up to a 16 1/2“ height
@@ZenChicQuilting Ohhhhh ok. Thank you so much for your fast response. Math is not my strong suit. :) It's looking really good though! Thank you so much again and best holiday wishes!
Maybe batiks
What was the foundation that you used?
Actually there was no foundation, I made myself just a piece of paper 5“ x 17“ to have a reference, which size I need to cover with my pieced strips. This was thrown away after the strips have been pieced together
Cant wait to try this! Really modern, fab look - and hopefully straight forward enough for a beginner! 🤞 Going to use a mix of burgundy and light pink with a few printed details here and there. Probably a silly question but would you quilt this front piece on to a 16.5 inch piece of wadding? Many thanks
Hi Miriam, these are fun and easy to do even for a beginner, so go ahead. A mix from prints and pink will be lovely. Yes, you can add a wadding underneath the top surface and quilt it a bit, it would even add some interest. I usually go for a larger piece of wadding, in this case 18" x 18", so I don't have to care about matching edges. And I trim off the quilted piece to the desired size.
I just go with what is in the scrap bin... anything goes in my opinion
Solids