We make floor pillows with our own hands - a master class

2024 Author: Arianna Cook | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:55

Floor cushions come in handy when you want to relax. You can create such a product in the form of a cheeseburger, shark, and other animals. Many ideas and workshops on this topic await you. They have become fashionable for a long time. It is very pleasant to lie down and relax on such a soft product. Moreover, not only children, but also adults like this pastime.

Food-shaped floor cushions

In short, we can say about these products that they are beautiful, comfortable and original.

Floor pillow "scrambled eggs"

It's nice to lie down and relax after a hard day. And if such scrambled eggs are waiting for you at home, then it will also cheer you up.

The yolks are very soft. Do not be afraid to get dirty on them, as this is a fake giant fried egg, it is sewn from various materials, from which, from:

• white fur or soft fleecy fabric;
• pleasant to the touch yellow fabric;
• padding polyester;
• canvas that holds its shape well, for example, from drape.

Usually the diameter of such a floor cushion? it is the height of a person. Therefore, this value can be 160 × 190 cm. If you create such places of rest for children, then the diameter of the product will be smaller.

1. Largest fabric width? this is 1 meter 50 cm. If you have a pillow with a larger diameter, then create it from two halves of fur or material, the width of which is about a meter.
2. To make this type of floor cushions soft and keep their shape, from a dense material, for example, from a drape, make another circle of the same kind. Place a synthetic winterizer in the center so that it lies softly.
3. Mark the location of the yolks. Place them on the edge to rest your head on this pillow, and your body, arms and legs on a white round base. Tuck the edges inward, hem here on your hands.
4. Cut out circles of a larger diameter from the yellow fabric than they will be in the end, since you will fill them with padding polyester, which will lead to a decrease in volume. But the pillows will become more convex.
5. Sew them to the white base on your arms. When doing this, use strong threads, fix securely.

The next floor pillow, also made with your own hands, will certainly cheer you up.

Floor pillow cheeseburger

From a distance it may seem like a big cheeseburger, but a closer look reveals that this is a cozy pillow. It consists of several elements, each of which must be sewn separately. It:

• two halves of a bun;
• flat cutlet;
• lettuce leaf;
• rectangular slice of cheese;
• two slices of tomato.

To sew a floor pillow, take:

• fabric of brown, red, white, green, yellow;
• a piece of white leather;
• synthetic winterizer;
• scissors;
• threads of the desired colors;
• cardboard.

Step by step creation:

1. Draw a circle of the desired diameter on the cardboard to create two halves of the bun. In this photo they are made of brown linen. But if you want the bread to be not rye, but wheat, then take a flesh-colored or slightly yellowish cloth.
2. For the first half of the bun, cut out two circles of the same size. With a tape measure, measure the length of the arc of any of these blanks. Remember this figure. You will have a strip of this length that will connect both halves of the top slice of bread. The width of this strip is 15 cm.
3. Attach it first to one half, stitch, then match with the other half and sew too, but leave a small hole. Through it, it will be convenient to lay a synthetic winterizer into this blank.
4. To make such a beautiful thing, to transform your interior, the pillow should look like a cheeseburger. To make the top half of the bun look like real baked goods, sew white leather circles to it. Then also sew this blank with a ribbon of the same fabric, stitch in the second half of the top bun.
5. You can create this baked product from fabrics of contrasting colors, for example, from fabrics of flesh and brown.
6. But the grilled cutlet needs to be sewn from brown fabric, in the same way as the halves of the bun were created.
7. A slice of cheese is very easy to make by folding the yellow cloth rectangle in half. Place a sheet of padding polyester between the two halves, sew the edges.
8. For two slices of tomato, you need four circles of red cloth. White trim is sewn on top of them, but it is better to use orange cloth to mark the tomato segments. Sew each of the four circles in pairs, connecting two adjacent ones with ribbons of the same red fabric. Fill these blanks with padding polyester or other similar material, and then sew the remaining holes on the hands.
9. Draw the outlines of the future lettuce leaf on cardboard. Lay this template on a light green fabric, cut two pieces out of this fabric, and the third? from padding polyester. Sew the edges, after which you need to select fragments of the sheet. To do this, also use machine stitching.

Bag chair

If you like a beanbag chair, then you can make a kind of cheeseburger based on such a resting place.

Prepare fabric and filler. For a beanbag chair, use light brown linen and foam balls. You will stuff an already sewn product with them. Make a slice of cheese with yellow cloth and sheet filling.

Floor pillow "waffle with cream, berries and fruits"

If you like soft waffles with chocolate cream and fruit, then the next floor cushion is sure to be for your taste.

To create it, take:

• fabric of brown, yellow, dark blue, red, green;
• brown lining or other glossy fabric of this color;
• white braid;
• black cord;
• thick sheet foam rubber;
• synthetic winterizer or holofiber.

Then follow this plan:

1. If you have a beige fabric with brown squares printed on it, then grab it. If not, then wash them on a plain canvas. Cut a piece of strawberry out of red fabric. It looks like a triangle with a rounded top.
2. You will need two such fabric blanks. Between them, put exactly the same of a sheet padding polyester. But don't sew them yet. To show the cut on the strawberry, sew white tape to one of the red halves to make the cut look more realistic. After that, collect all three layers, sew them together.
3. The pillow, the ideas for which suggested the culinary theme, turned out to be similar to strawberries or strawberries. To have a slice of kiwi next to it, cut two circles out of light green cloth. Sew them along the edges, but not all the way. The remaining hole is needed for stuffing the product with padding polyester. You can draw kiwi seeds with a black marker or sew on dark buttons instead of them, or lay out circles using a black cord.
4. To make blueberries, cut out circles from dark blue fabric. Gather them along the edge on a strong thread, but step back 5 cm from it. Slightly tighten the thread, fill the resulting bag with filler.
5. Now tighten the thread, tie it into knots. Make the rest of the blueberries in the same way. Cut the coverlet out of the shiny brown fabric. When you make this makeshift bed, this bedspread will play the role of chocolate paste, which is spread over soft waffles. Lay out pillows on top that look so much like real berries and fruits.
6. The waffle itself is also easy to create. To do this, fold the rectangle of fabric in half, stitch the sides and corners, and place a sheet of foam rubber inside. And if you want this mattress to be thicker, then you can use not one, but two or three sheets of foam rubber.
7. Sew on the remaining free side on your hands. Here is such a wonderful sleeping place. Children will be especially delighted with him.

Do-it-yourself pancake floor pillow

Not everyone can afford to lie on pancakes. But these products will be created from textiles, then such a dream will come true.

1. You can sew 5-7 pancakes, then this floor pillow will be voluminous, you can comfortably sit on it. And if friends are expected to come, then you can place everyone on such a pancake so that it is convenient for them. Children will also find use for these products, they can not only lie on them, but also play.
2. The main thing ? find a fabric of a suitable color. To make the edges of the pancakes the most realistic, not to become too even, cut out two blanks for each flour product. You can make their edges any way you like.
3. It remains to put a synthetic winterizer or foam rubber between the two elements, sew the edges on the hands or on a sewing machine.
4. If you want the edges to be voluminous, then you need to connect the two circles with strips of fabric or fur. In this case, the pancakes will quickly turn into wood cuts, then the ottoman pillow, consisting of several such elements, will quickly turn into resting places for 3-5 people.

If you want the guests who entered to see giant mouth-watering pancakes with pieces of butter, then turn rectangles of yellow fabric and foam rubber into it.

Fold the fabric in half. Sew the sides on the sewing machine on the wrong side. Turn the workpiece out onto your face, put foam rubber inside the rectangle, grind with the remaining free edge on your hands.

A little trick. To make the blanks look like pieces of butter, sew the corners before putting the synthetic winterizer in there. Then these pillows will take the desired shape.

These are such wonderful mouth-watering pancakes.

The next master class will allow you to make a gift for a child that he will certainly like.

Donut-shaped pillow - make at home

To end up with such a product, take:

• 0.5m beige fleece or felt;
• 0.5m pink or white fleece, it will be icing;
• synthetic winterizer or holofiber;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• threads;
• trimming felt of various colors.

Attach a suitable round object to a beige canvas, circle it, cut out two blanks.

This is the base for the top and bottom halves of the donut. To make the floor cushion look like a real confection, attach a matching circular template to the pink fabric. But it is only needed to create the foundation. Draw wavy lines at the edges of the resulting ring. After all, the glaze lays down unevenly, but in this way.

Remember to attach a small circle to the center of each of these blanks, then cut along the mark.

Cut the remaining felt into strips, pin them to the pink glaze.

Now attach this blank to the beige circle.

Join these two elements with a zigzag seam on a typewriter.

This same seam will allow you to connect both halves of the donut, but remember to leave a gap so you can insert the filler through it.

Now you can sew up the hole and use the pillow as intended.

On this, the ideas for pillows on a culinary theme can be ended, but continued with other types of similar products. You can sew them according to your preference.

Planetary floor cushions

If distant worlds beckon you, you can sew a floor pillow on this topic.

If you do not have such material, create it yourself. To do this, you will need to buy fabric paint, cut out a template for the future planet from cardboard. Place it on a light-colored canvas, use a sponge to apply paint to the fabric. Leave the product in this state for a while. You will learn more about this by reading the instructions for a particular paint.

You can make the planet in pigeon tones to make it look like our Earth. If you want to create a unique masterpiece, then use several shades.

There are other pillow ideas as well. You can use fabric for this, which depicts the surface of Mars. Draw mysterious craters with paint if you don't have a fabric with a suitable print.

Pillow harnesses

This is another original kind of soft attributes for relaxation. No wonder such products are called snake pillows. The textile base is really similar to this reptile, you need to give it the necessary shape, make a kind of nest.

The advantage of such a product is that you can shape it the way it is convenient for you. If you get tired of this position of the pillow, you can easily give it a different one.

1. The presented version is sewn from soft fabric and filler. A strip of the desired width is cut from the canvas, its long edges must be folded together and sewn on the wrong side. Then the product is turned inside out and shaped with filler.
2. If your snake pillow is too long then proceed differently. Sew the strips so long that it is convenient to fill them with padding polyester. After that, you will stitch the next strip to it, put the filler in it. Create a product from as many pieces as you want it to be.

If you want to make the pillow small so that it covers the head and neck area, then you will need less materials. See how many positions you can give this product to get a good rest and sleep.

And here is what similar products look like when disassembled. As you can see, from a long tape stuffed with padding polyester or holofiber, you need to make a ring by stitching its beginning and end together. Then you can bend the tourniquet as you wish.

The following products are no less original and convenient to use.

Animal floor cushions

On chilly autumn and winter evenings, you can keep warm with a shark pillow. It is good because the inside of such a product is hollow. You can lie down here. Then the person will have a mattress, blanket and pillow at the same time. Great savings on the bed.

Children will also like such a product, in which they will probably still play. A shark-shaped floor pillow begins to be created with the selection of the necessary material and equipment, these are:

• fabric of gray, black, red, white;
• filler;
• scissors;
• threads.

Below is the pattern of the pillow. Enlarge it to the desired size.

First you need to cut out the fins, fill them with holofiber or padding polyester. Now cut out the back and tail of the shark from gray fabric, and the belly from white. Sew the two parts of the back together, connecting both parts of the tail. Sew the abdomen.

To make the product soft, you will need to create it in three layers. Then you need to carve out the lower part of the back and the upper part of the abdomen from the fabric and from the filler. Make the mouth red and cut the teeth out of white drape or fleece. They are triangular and run on one tape. It needs to be sewn into place for the pillow shark to acquire such completely fearless teeth.

Other large fish such as a dolphin or a whale can be created using the same principle. The womb of these aquatic animals, which are made of fabric, will be warm and comfortable. The octopus will also become a friend of adults and children. This floor cushion easily converts into an armchair. If you need to give it rigidity, then put a wire frame inside. Now it will be easy for you to bend the octopus tentacles to get comfortable.

If you have a huge veranda or there are empty rooms in the apartment, then you can take this space with a giant cat. It can accommodate several people, so you can hold an interesting party using this floor pillow at the same time as a table, armchairs and sleeping place.

If there is not enough space and a lot of material, then sew small cats and dogs from the remnants of the flaps. Such colorful animals will surely please your children and will refresh the interior.

You can create other animals using a similar technique. Look what a cute bunny has chosen the floor.

Its torso and ears are one-piece, while the belly and the inside of the ears are trimmed with white fur. Using rags and threads, make the features of the bunny's face, sew on its legs.

To keep your child entertained, make a puzzle floor pillow. Then the beloved child can collect them, at the same time training ingenuity. When the child gets tired, lie down on this mattress to rest.

And if you have many children or friends come to your beloved child, then you can sew such waves from fabric and filler to bring joy to the children. They will be able to come up with many games with these attributes, and when the children are gone, adults will be able to relax on these floor pillows.

DIY sleep pillows

They will help out if a person acutely feels his loneliness or just wants to sleep on such a comfortable product.

If a loved one is not around because he left or for another reason, you can imagine that he is with you. To do this, take:

• his shirt;
• scissors;
• white or flesh-colored fabric;
• filler.

Step by step creation:

1. From a light-colored fabric, sew a rectangular base with your hand and fingers, and cut the shirt in half. Sew in the center of the back with a shelf. But this must be done when you put this shirt on a soft base.
2. If you want to sew a floor pillow as quickly as possible, then use a regular rectangular pillow for the base. It remains only to carve out a hand from fabric and filler, sew these two blanks together.

Here is such a wonderful product.

A single man can sleep better if he has a similar pillow in the shape of a woman's legs.

You can take this idea into service when you don't know what to present to the boss or another man.

If you have enough fabric and materials, then a gift for a woman can be no less original. Create such a gentle friend for her so that she always feels his reliable shoulder.

If you don't have a pattern, it's easy to fix. Place the man on glued newspapers or on a roll of wallpaper, circle him. It remains to transfer the pattern to the fabric, cut out the upper and lower halves of the pillow. Then you will need to grind these two parts together, and fill the toy with padding polyester through the remaining gap.

If the child sleeps on the move, this is easy to fix. It is enough to take the following idea into service. Sew on a regular but lightweight pillow head pocket. When necessary, the child will put his head here and be able to rest, even while standing. But make sure that his neck is not overtightened. Better on this place make a Velcro fastener.

An adult will also be able to sleep in any conditions if he has a helmet pillow.

On the sides of this product there is a round cut to pass your arms here.

Then you can sleep right at your workplace during your lunch break.

A good sleep on the plane will help the next pillow, which is placed on the shoulder and rests against the back of the chair.

If you have a runny nose, sew a wide strip of fabric with a cut and cut hole to the pillow. Place soft handkerchiefs here to keep close at hand while relaxing.

And if you spend a long time at the computer and type on the keyboard, then sew just such an elongated fish in just an hour. Putting your hand on it, you will see how comfortable it has become.

And finally, take a look at another gadget.

It will be comfortable for a child to lie on such a pillow, but for a mother? feed the baby. It can be made from fabric by inserting thick foam rubber inside. The product is wrapped around the mother's waist and fixed with reliable straps. These can be bought at a craft store, like other materials, to sew a pillow with your own hands.

If you want to see how others create pillows with their own hands, which can be used as floor pillows, then watch an interesting process.

Check out how to make your own cheeseburger pillow. If you want, create such a small pillow or make a large floor pillow.