home decor – FOUR ROBBINS https://fourrobbins.com A Handmade Life Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/fourrobbins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/isla_280x280.38265828_n2d9f3fj-2-e1578254100927.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 home decor – FOUR ROBBINS https://fourrobbins.com 32 32 170981382 Add a Little Sweetness to Your Home this Valentine’s Day with Four Robbins’ Valentine’s Day Pillow Cover Patterns https://fourrobbins.com/valentines-day-pillows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valentines-day-pillows Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:40:32 +0000 https://fourrobbins.com/?p=2771 A few years ago I made these pillow cover patterns for a sew along. One of my favorite things about sewing pillows is that they make such an impact to your decor with very little effort.

They are perfect for beginners and advanced sewists alike. They are scrap friendly and you can complete them in just a couple of hours! The patterns are all live in my FourRobbins Etsy shop and are available as an instant PDF download.

Patchwork Heart Pillow Cover

This first pattern is the Patchwork Heart Pillow Cover. This one is perfect for using up lots of scraps. Just pick your color palette and start sewing! The patterns include all your cutting and sewing instructions as well as finishing your pillow cover with a hidden zipper and adding binding for a nice, clean finish. You can make them as is for a standard 16×16 pillow or add a border to accommodate larger pillow forms. As for the pillow inserts, I’ve gotten them at Joann Fabrics using a 40% off coupon as well as on Amazon.

Patchwork Heart Pillow Cover

Next is XOXO Hugs & Kisses pillow cover. I made this one in reds and blacks but you could really make any of these pillows in other colors to keep around all year or in favorite colors for a bedroom pillow. Hmmm… I just might have to make some in blues for MY bedroom.

XOXO Pillow Cover

Next, is my favorite, Rainbow Heart pillow cover. I love a rainbow! I was thinking of doing some of these in some ombre, with colors or tones that shade into each other. Stay tuned. 🙂

Rainbow Heart Pillow Cover

I hope you love these fun patterns as much as I loved creating them! You can find them on sale for 20% off their already low price through February 14th! Enjoy!

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Wow Your Friends and Family with these Beautiful Fall Leaf Pillows Made from your Fabric Scraps! https://fourrobbins.com/scrap-buster-fall-leaves-pillows-tutorial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scrap-buster-fall-leaves-pillows-tutorial Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:03:46 +0000 http://box5503.temp.domains/~fourrobb/?p=412 Last week was super busy. In addition to all the regular life stuff, my in-laws were downsizing and moving and we inherited some lovely things so there were some trips over, some clearing space and organizing, some movers, and a whole lot of tired. I’m happy to say, though, that my work area got upgraded and I now have a little studio, which is a good thing. My space behind the sofa started out fine but with all my making, more and more stuff was migrating to the living room and I was having a hard time keeping it all neat and organized.

In getting organized, I discovered just how many scraps I really have so (yikes) so you can expect to see a lot of scrap buster tutorials in the future!

Since I’ve been on the fall pillow kick, I thought I would make a couple of quick applique pillows to add to my #fourrobbinspillowofthemonth collection. And I love leaves!

Cut out your leaves to use as templates then follow the instructions from my mum tutorial substituting your leaves for the mum petals. It will show you step by step how to use the EZ Steam for your pieces. I cut out the large birch leaf and then just two (2) of the other smaller ones to cut out the six smaller leaves. For the maple leaves, my pillow has about 21 leaves. I quilted these with a layer of batting behind but no backing. I used Aurifil 50 wt. #2340, which is a golden tan color. The birch leaves idea came from this beautiful free photo by @chrislawton

I tried to follow a similar look with my quilting.

Next, for the maple leaves, I laid them out in a heart shape. To quilt, I free motioned hearts over and over in multiple sizes and then free motioned fall over and over as well.

To finish the pillow backs, you can use my hidden zipper pillow back tutorial or turn them into minis to hang up.

I think they turned out so cute!

If you make one, I’d love to see! Post using #fourrobbinsscrapbuster on social media!

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