Awhile ago I
reupholstered my bench that sits in my hallway. Over the last couple months I have found some pillows for the bench to bring all of the colors together.
The red one I had, the paisley with red trim I made,the lumbar with the blue and navy circles I found at Walmart, and the big navy one is actually just a standard pillowcase with a pillow {from the couch in my playroom} stuffed in it. I liked the arrangement very much, but it needed just punch. And I really didn't like two solid pillows. After looking for a different pillow {with no luck} and never wanting to spend any $ I decided to embellish the pillowcase.
I love the Greek key {almost as much as I love the chevron...} but since the bench fabric has that pattern already I wanted to create something that was graphic but not too over-the-top with Greek key.
Originally I wanted to sew the ribbon on to the pillow, but then I realized I didn't really want to cut up the pillowcase. My next thought was fabric glue. Here is where I started...
When I said the pillow was stuffed into the pillowcase it really was and I just folded up the extra material into the bottom. The bench rarely gets sat on so it didn't really ever come out. But I thought to do this right I probably should cut and sew the bottom to make an actual finished pillow. So I measured the pillow and cut the remainder off. Then I folded and ironed a 1/2" of the fabric up so I had something to hand sew when I was done. Next I started to pencil out my design. I really didn't have a pattern to follow... I sort of just eyeballed where I wanted the big square to be, and then how big I wanted the small ones to be {I know, not very helpful if you are going to try this}. Here are the measurements I ended up with:
The Pillow is 20"x 22"
The large square is 12" x 12" {measured to the outside}
The small squares are 6" x 6" {measured to the outside}
The ribbon is 1" wide
After I measured and cut all of the strips out, I began gluing the white ribbon down...
and this is what happened:
Can you see the glue lines? I thought after it dried it wouldn't show the glue lines.... um no. It looked horrible! So I did this...
Yep, I spray painted the fabric ribbon beige. I was thinking I could use a fun contrasting color, but with the other pillows and bench, I liked the beige. {I did a test just to make sure when the glue dried it was not visible. Just make sure you get enough paint on the ribbon to make it opaque.}
I laid out the design and began gluing..
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| {the glue was not quite dry... but I was running out of good light and I wanted to snap some pics.} |
I love the linear, graphic pop it adds the the pillow arrangement! A Greek key inspired pillow for less than $10!
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