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Have you ever wanted to make your own decorative pillows? Pillows that you can put on either
your sofa chair or even your bed as little toss pillows. Well my name is Daniel King,
I'm a designer. And I'm going to show you how to close a pillow, the pillow case of
the pillow so it closed. So here we have a pillow. And you can take a pre-purchase pillowcase
if you wish. If you found one that you liked or you can actually create one your own, one
of your own but taking fabric, taking two pieces that are cut just slightly bigger than
the pillow itself. Sew them together. And once you've sewn together on three sides of
the pillow you then have your open end. You place the turned; actually once you've sewn
it you turn it inside out. You then have a little bit of excess fabric at the end here.
You flip that inside, turn it in. Just like you were rolling up a hem and you have those
two together. Then you take your needle and thread. And I'm using a contrasting color
here just so that you can see it better. You can start here at the end. Now if you start
on the inside of the actual lip here, you can get that in there and that way you won't
see the thread. But usually in this case it really doesn't matter because you're probably
going to use the same color of thread. So going threw here, you just whip this around
and I'm stitching threw both sides. And you have a knot at the other end. And you can
actually whip stitch it over the top if you like and if you've, again if you've got the
same colored thread that's not going to be a problem. So again stick threw it. Pull it
out. We'll pull it out. And then you continue on. Start underneath, push it threw. Pull it out and continue down the pillow.
Now you can leave this; I would probably do this a little tighter than I'm doing here
for demonstration.
As you work down here. Also you may be able to leave it a little looser if you'd like,
if you're changing on a regular basis. Changing the different types of fabrics you want to
make your decorative pillows. O.k. So that's how you can take and close the pillow, by
just sewing it closed. My name is Daniel King. Have a good afternoon.