Place Mat Pillow

I love pillows and have been wanting to make one for my love seat 

to bring in some more yellow into my living room that I am 

making over a little bit 

I was at target and found a place mat that was the perfect pattern and color 

that I was looking for and the best part is it was only $3 

and I knew just how to transform this into a pillow easily

First you will need a fabric place mat that has been sewn together

or you can get two and sew them together 

but in this case I only needed to use one place mat which 

was awesome and cheaper

First you are going to unpick just one side of your place mat

Warning I bought a place mat that has pipping so it was a little 

trickier than one with just a normal stitch and no pipping 

but it was still super quick and easy

You are going to just unpick one side and leave all the other sides

sewn together like so

Next you will need a bag of stuffing 

I used about 3/4 of this bag that I got for only $3

Stuff until the desired fullness 

I  wanted mine really full

I probably could have gotten away with just using half 

of the bag but I liked the fuller look better

Once it is all stuffed you are going to pin the pillow back together

and sew it 

Because mine had pipping I pinned and sewed the inside then 

I pinned the pipping and sewing that 

And here you have a super easy pillow 

and all I spent was $6 

and I can say I made it :)

Don't you love that 

If you already have batting you can get away with it costing even less :)

And there she is in her new home 

right on my love seat sandwiched between two blue pillows 

Love :)

Sorry about the bad lighting we live in a basement apartment

so I am not able to get the best pictures  but you get the idea

For a tutorial on my curtains shown above

made out of a table cloth go HERE

Another look just for fun!

You can do it!

Its so easy and they have so many cute place mats 

around in so many different colors and patterns 

This pillow is linked up HERE 

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XOXO