Happy Spring Placemat Pillow
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Easy Project | Make a Pillow out of a Placemat
I love Spring, in fact it is my favorite time of year. It seems like Spring has arrived early this year. We have been very unseasonably warm. Know what else I love? Easy Diy Pillows! It doesn’t get any easier than this diy placemat pillow.
I’ve always wanted to make one of those cute place mat pillows, but I’ve never found a cheap placemat that I actually liked.
Materials to Make a Placemat Pillow
- A placemat
- Pillow stuffing or filling material (e.g., cotton, polyester fiberfill)
- Needle & Thread
- Optional: Fabric gluef or double-sided Fabric Tape
- Small Scissors or Seam Ripper
This placemat was a great clearance find. Since placemats are generally needed in sets, you may be able to find a really nice single placemat.
Steps for Making the Pillow
- Remove the stiches from one end of your pretty placemat. I recommend doing only enough on the center in order to get your hand inside to fill your pillow.
- Clean up remaining bits of threads.
- Open this end and stuff your pillow with filler
- Don’t forget the corners
- Close the open end with stitches, fabric glue or fabric tape.
I had some really old fiberfil that I got from a friend when she cleaned out a bunch of stuff. Do you have an old pillow that you could remove the stuffing to use for your new pillow?
So, as I mentioned above, you simply open up a small part of the seam, and stuff the placemat to make it fluffy. I stitched the end of the placemat pillow by hand. But if you prefer to use the fabric tape or glue, you’ll be done in no time! See, I told you it was easy!
I really like the embroidery on this placemat pillow, and the buttons are just an added bonus.
Happy Spring to YOU! I hope you are enjoying some warm Spring weather soon.
Here is the placemat pillow resting in my slipcovered antique chair.
gail
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Love this pillow. So cute for Spring.
This is so cute! If you don’t have a bag of poly fil stuffing open, the closed bag will fit in without opening it you may have to pop the bag a bit if it won’t go in. But then you can trade out by the season.
ADORABLE…I love this! Great job of repurposing!!
that is sooo cute!!!
OK, that’s my kind of sewing project! Cute pillow!
VERY CUTE pillow!
Yep… here in southern Arizona we welcomed spring with snow, hail, and freezing weather. LOL
I would have never thought of using a placemat designed like that to make a pillow!
Very clever, Gail…love it too!
Cute!
Sew simple even I could do it.
I may make some for my new bench I’m working on!
I really like your’s. Suits you!
~Pat
Love your pillow! It simply yells Spring Time. Just praying we have a true spring and not a jump from winter to summer!
What a Beautiful placemat pillow, Gail! Happy Spring to you!!
sandraallen260@centurytel.net
You found a great placemat for that pillow! So cute and springy!
Just darling!
Holly
very cute,, easiest way to make some pillows, if you’re lucky enough to find placemats that you like. Happy Spring to you!
That placemat made a great pillow. I’ll have to look at placemats differently from now on.
Love that pillow! I tried that recently for the first time, too. I had a set of blue placemats with chickens on them, and I sewed them back to back for a friend that collects chickens and has her kitchen painted blue…she loves them. Wish I’d taken a picture!
Very cute Gail! I’ve had the same problem as you… never finding a placemats I like at the right price to do this with. It’s on my list, though.
Gail your pillow is so Spring,lovely
x jeanetteann