Sewing a lavender pillow
Ready to sew a lavender pillow using our Israeli-grown Lavender Sewing Party Kit? Read on for instructions (and some tips and tricks) which will have you creating beautiful(-smelling) creation in no time!
Cut your desired pillow shape out of office paper. Keep it simple – think circle, heart, rectangle – with no sharp corners.
Trace the shape. You’ll need two of the shape – either trace it twice, or fold the fabric in half as shown.
Looking good!
Cut out two of the shape.
Looking good!
Thread the needle, and measure how much thread you will need by looping it around the outside of your shape + adding some extra.
I like to work double-threaded: measure twice as much thread as you need, and double-knot the ends.
Sew! Poke the needle down through both layers, and then up again through both layers. Keep at least 5mm away from the edge.
Keep sewing around the edge! The smaller and closer together the stitches are, the neater your pillow will look.
If one of the threads in a stitch is loose, pull it tight!
Don’t sew all the way to your starting point. Leave a gap about the length of the needle. Double-knot the thread where you stop.
Poke the needle through to the inside and pull it all the way through.
Turn the pillow inside out, through the gap.
To stuff the pillow, you’ll need either a funnel, or a lot more patience than I have. You can create a funnel by squishing the end of a toilet paper tube, or folding and taping a piece of office paper into a cone shape.
Fill it up! Don’t overstuff the pillow.
After the pillow is full, sew up the gap. The easiest way is to fold the raw edges inside, and then loop with the needle around the edge…
…like this.
Double knot the thread close to the fabric, and cut off the extra. Looks great!