I found this great shag pillow on Pinterest. Ahhh Pinterest. So many creative ideas, so little time to make them, because I have spent all of my time pinning.
I did manage to get to this project at least. That’s something, right?
The tutorial is from one of my favorite blogs, V and Co. Vanessa has great ideas!
What I especially liked about this project was that I didn’t have to buy any fabric! Instead of purchasing cotton and jersey as Vanessa did, I used old t-shirts, the ones my girls have outgrown or that have little holes in them, for the shag, and an old pillowcase for the body of the pillow.
One t-shirt is not enough fabric to cover this entire pillow with shag. I ended up using four, all in different shades of pink. Pinkish? I like the pillow even more with several colors. An added bonus!
Begin by cutting the tops and side seams off of the t-shirts.
Then cut 11/2 inch x 4 inch strips from the t-shirt fabric.
From the pillowcase cut through both layers of fabric to get two 11x15 inch rectangles.
Mark guidelines every ¾ inch on one of the pillow rectangles.
Following guidelines, begin to sew t-shirt strips onto top layer only of pillow. Be sure to leave ¼ inch at the top and bottom of each row to allow space for the seam of your pillow!
Because I was using four different colors, I had to determine ahead of time how many strips of each color I was going to add per row. My math was not very good. I ran out of one color and had too much of another. Oh well. I’m the only one who would notice. Hopefully if you decide to make this pillow and use several colors you will have better luck with your math.
Continue to add t-shirt strips until you have each row filled, about 15 strips per row.
As you add the strips, bunch them, roll them, and twist them, to give your shag pillow a less uniformed, shaggier look. This will be good!
Once all of the t-shirt strips are sewn onto the pillow top, pin the top, shaggy layer, to the bottom layer of the pillow, right sides facing.
Turn the pillow right side out and stuff with fluff. I just like to say stuff with fluff.
Hand stitch the pillow closed.
Voila! A fabulous, fun shag pillow!
A shag pillow that was confiscated by my youngest daughter!
That, my friends is my first Pintrest hack! It shall not be the last! (maniacal laugh, maniacal laugh!) Sorry! I got a little caught up in craziness of actually completing a craft I pinned on Pinterest.
~ Christine
*All photography – minus V& Co image – by Christine Van Tassel*
*All photography – minus V& Co image – by Christine Van Tassel*
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