A Pillow with Giant Pom Poms

In my final installment of cool and funky pillows, I present to you….

A pillow with GIANT POM POMS!

That goes perfectly with the two other cool and funky pillows!

I did some searching on Pinterest and instructions to make pom poms with a piece of cardboard or by just wrapping it around my hand.

They came out very scraggly. And I wanted Perfectly Perky Pom Poms.

So I bought this Clover Pom Pom maker.

The instructions were a little vague on the package but right about the same time, sew4home.com came out with almost the identical pillow that I wanted to make! Great minds think alike!

Gotta say I love that fabric and it might find a place in my home around Halloween!

In the same post on sew4home, they added an easy step by step tutorial on making the pom poms. There was also a link to a video to make twisted cord which was also incredibly easy and made a nice sturdy tie for the pom poms.

Perfectly Perky Pom Poms

Here’s what the twisted cord looks like when it’s finished.

I had a pillow that had never been used. Came with the sofa and was just too ugly to put out.

This pillow needs a facelift!

I also had this fabric that I bought for binding a quilt. Or the lining of a tote. But I thought it would make a great funky pillow, too.

It’s from Timeless Treasure and it’s not available on Fabric.com anymore so I’m trying to be frugal with it. I just used this fabric for the front and a white linen blend for the back that I had in my stash.

I’m going into very little detail on how I made the pillow. It’s just an easy envelope style pillow. Because it is a quilting fabric, I lined it with fleece. The pillow I was covering was 21″ square so I cut the front fabric and front fleece to 22″ square to allow for a 1/2″ seam allowance. For the back I cut 2 15″ x 22″ pieces plus the same size in the fleece. Sew the fleece on the wrong sides of the fabric, then trim. For the back, turn under 1/2″ and then another 1/2″ on one 22″ side then stitch on each side.

The important thing is the placement of the pom poms. I put mine 1 1/2″ from the corners then stitched them down. Then I used my zipper foot to sew on the back pieces.