M&J Blog

By Eleah

This week I wanted to make an accent pillow with stripes but didn’t have any striped material on hand. What better solution than to make my own stripes! With the cool weather rolling in, I wanted it to be extra soft. I selected some leftover high-pile apoulstery fabric for the body of the pillow. For the stripes I used 22mm velvet ribbon that complimented the color of the fabric. Since I used two different fabrics for each side, I wanted something to break between them with out clashing with the ribbon so I picked out velvet cordedge in a neutral color so the stripes would not disappear.

Materials:

• Two 13×13 inch squares of fabric
• 51 inches of 22mm (style# 00856) cordedge
• 3 ¼ yards of 22mm velvet ribbon in 1 color, or 1.6 yards of 2 different colors.
• Sewing Machine, needle, thread to match ribbon
• Stuffing

Instructions:

1. Pin down ribbon evenly spaced on 1 of your 13×13” squares of fabric
2. Remove pins as you hem down the ribbon. Try to keep the stitch as close to the edge of the ribbon so as not to interrupt the pile of the velvet.
3. Refer to one of my earlier blogs for instructions on the rest of the pillow. Begin with step 8 from my textile transformation blog. FYI-you will probably want to pin the cordedge to the side of the fabric that has the ribbon sewn to it. Since that will be the front, you will want more control of a perfect hem.
4. And you’re done!