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    Home Ā» Crafts Ā» Happy Spring Placemat Pillow

    Happy Spring Placemat Pillow

    Modified: Feb 26, 2023 by Gail Wilson
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    Transform your plain placemats into stylish pillows with our easy DIY placemat pillow tutorial. Elevate your home decor with personalized pillows made from materials you already have on hand. Follow our step-by-step instructions and create a cozy and unique accent piece for your living space. Perfect for beginners and seasoned DIYers alike. Start your project today! #MyRepurposedLife #easy #pillow via @repurposedlifeTransform your plain placemats into stylish pillows with our easy DIY placemat pillow tutorial. Elevate your home decor with personalized pillows made from materials you already have on hand. Follow our step-by-step instructions and create a cozy and unique accent piece for your living space. Perfect for beginners and seasoned DIYers alike. Start your project today! #MyRepurposedLife #easy #pillow via @repurposedlife

    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.

    easy placemat pillow project

    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

    how to- 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

    Happy Spring Placemat
    • 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.

    easy placemat pillow

    Here is the placemat pillow resting in my slipcovered antique chair.

    gail

    Related Content: Outdoor Pillow Ideas

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    Gail Wilson is the author and mastermind behind My Repurposed Life. She is obsessed with finding potential in unexpected places and believes that with a little hard work and imagination, any old thing can be made useful again, including herself!
    Gail reinvented herself during a midlife crisis and has found purpose again. She hopes you will find new ideas for old things and pick up a few tools along the way.

    About Gail Wilson

    Gail Wilson is the author and mastermind behind My Repurposed Life. She is obsessed with finding potential in unexpected places and believes that with a little hard work and imagination, any old thing can be made useful again, including herself!
    Gail reinvented herself during a midlife crisis and has found purpose again. She hopes you will find new ideas for old things and pick up a few tools along the way.

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    1. girlfromwva

      March 01, 2023 at 11:03 pm

      Love this pillow. So cute for Spring.

      Reply
    2. Jennie

      March 01, 2023 at 8:15 am

      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.

      Reply
    3. Terri

      March 21, 2012 at 1:12 pm

      ADORABLE...I love this! Great job of repurposing!!

      Reply
    4. Midwest Cottage and Finds!

      March 21, 2012 at 3:58 am

      that is sooo cute!!!

      Reply
    5. Suzanne@Meridian Road

      March 21, 2012 at 3:15 am

      OK, that's my kind of sewing project! Cute pillow!

      Reply
    6. Toqua's Crafts

      March 21, 2012 at 2:42 am

      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!

      Reply
    7. I Play Outside The Box

      March 21, 2012 at 12:09 am

      Very clever, Gail...love it too!

      Reply
    8. Corn in my Coffee-Pot

      March 20, 2012 at 5:37 pm

      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

      Reply
    9. Oklahomaredhead

      March 20, 2012 at 5:07 pm

      Love your pillow! It simply yells Spring Time. Just praying we have a true spring and not a jump from winter to summer!

      Reply
    10. Sandi @ The Primitive Skate

      March 20, 2012 at 1:55 pm

      What a Beautiful placemat pillow, Gail! Happy Spring to you!!

      sandraallen260@centurytel.net

      Reply
    11. Suzanne

      March 20, 2012 at 1:23 pm

      You found a great placemat for that pillow! So cute and springy!

      Reply
    12. Full Circle Creations

      March 20, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      Just darling!

      Holly

      Reply
    13. Debilou ~ Mississippi Mama

      March 20, 2012 at 1:13 pm

      very cute,, easiest way to make some pillows, if you're lucky enough to find placemats that you like. Happy Spring to you!

      Reply
    14. Grammy Goodwill

      March 20, 2012 at 1:00 pm

      That placemat made a great pillow. I'll have to look at placemats differently from now on.

      Reply
    15. substitutionqueen

      March 20, 2012 at 12:28 pm

      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!

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    16. Cynthia

      March 20, 2012 at 12:19 pm

      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.

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    17. jeanetteann

      March 20, 2012 at 10:42 am

      Gail your pillow is so Spring,lovely
      x jeanetteann

      Reply

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