Christmas DIY Pillow

I am very excited to be joining the #HomeforChristmas blog tour with many other talented bloggers to showcase some of our best Christmas ideas. It’s a great opportunity hosted by Hometalk.com and Countryliving.com–two of my favorite sites for home decor inspiration! At the bottom of the post, you’ll find thumbnail links to all the other bloggers’ Christmas projects and holiday home tours that I’m sure you will enjoy.

So remember those no sew pillow cases I made for my basement playroom redo?

They were so easy and turned out so great that I decided to put together a tutorial for you to learn to make them yourself. The best part of making your own pillow covers is that you can change your pillow’s style depending on your decor any time you want! I’ve always desired a cute holiday themed throw pillow for my living room, but didn’t want to buy a pillow for $20 that I would only display one month a year. Making a Christmas DIY pillow cover out of a sweater was the perfect solution!

First, I headed to my favorite thrift store and found a big white sweater for $3. Then I laid it out and found a throw pillow I already had that would fit.

(I’ll explain why one arm is missing from the sweater down below ;))

I cut the sweater fabric into as large of a piece as I could, following the seem to cut out the entire back of the sweater. You need to have a swatch of fabric at least 1/2 inch wider than the pillow on each side and at least twice as long as the pillow up and down. Next I “hemmed” the short sides of the fabric with hot glue, squeezing a line of glue onto the fabric and folding it back unto itself.

Then I folded the pillow cover over the pillow.

Gently slide the pillow out from the folded up fabric. Once flat, hot glue each side together. No need to fold, just glue the fabric all together in a line as if you were hemming it on a sewing machine.

Now turn the whole thing inside out!

And stuff your pillow inside…

I dressed up my Christmas DIY pillow with red ribbon. Then I used hot glue to attach a large snowflake ornament that was used on my snowflake themed Christmas tree last year!

I’m really loving how easy this craft was! When the season is over, I will just remove the cover and pack it away with the rest of my Christmas decorations.

The rest of the sweater did not go to waste! I used the sleeve that was missing in the aforementioned photo to create a few of these adorable tree cones.

More on that next week when you get to see my entire house tour, DECKED for the holidays! Seriously, nothing was untouched and everything was handmade. I’ve been sleeping next to my hot glue gun and inhaling paint fumes all week. You don’t want to miss all the fun ideas I have for the holidays, including these candles I wrapped in real birch bark!

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I hope you enjoyed my Christmas DIY pillow and that you find many more inspiring projects in the #HomeforChristmas blog tour. To see more, search the hashtag #HomeforChristmas on all social media platforms–Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Scroll below to check out some more amazing holiday ideas!