Palette Pillow Sewing Tutorial With Wildflower Boutique Fabrics
Make our Palette Pillow with Wildflower Boutique Fabrics and Knit Jersey Fabrics! Make our Palette Pillow in 2 hours, with just two seams! Instantly update your décor and sew a new pillow with an unexpected knit fabric. The knit jersey offers give–and–stretch for ease in tucking the pillow form through the envelope-style pillow back. This is a great project for first-time sewists — and it’s almost effortless to make!
Palette Pillow Pattern available at ShopNZP.com
Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 111: Nancy Zieman’s Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Pillows: Palette Pillow!
Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 111 – Palette Pillow Video with hosts Deanna Springer and Dana Casey. In this video, the Stitch it! Sisters share step-by-step fabric cutting and sewing techniques for making our Palette Pillow from one fabric rectangle and one fabric square!
Then, head over to ShopNZP.com and choose from three exclusive Palette Pillow Bundle Boxes designed by the Stitch it! Sisters! Our Palette Pillow Bundle Boxes feature, Wildflower Boutique Fabrics! by Riley Blake Designs. The Palette Pillow Bundle Boxes with Pillow Form Insert include ALL SUPPLIES needed to make one Palette Pillow! You’ll supply the thread.
What is a Palette Pillow? Team NZP named our Palette Pillow for the pillow’s front flat fabric surface, which is an ideal area — or palette — to showcase a variety of fabrics or techniques. Simply feature a beautiful fabric print – as we did with this pillow, or choose a fun novelty fabric, or a leftover quilt block. Try a new technique when making your next Palette Pillow: Prior to sewing your pillow together, decorate the square front fabric “palette” with ribbons, trims, buttons, applique, thread embellishment, machine embroidery, and/or nearly any embellishments you’d like – you’re the designer!
Palette Pillow Sewing Tutorial
Approximate finished size: 18″ x 18″
Palette Pillow Tools & Supplies
- Nancy Zieman’s Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Pillows: Palette Pillow Bundle Box
- Clover’s Hot Ruler
- Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
- Clover’s Rotary Cutter & Mat, and ruler
- Clover’s Bordeaux Scissors
- June Tailor’s Eze-View Pressing Cloth
- Clover’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Seam Guide
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Heart-Shapped Pins
- Schmetz Universal Size 90 Needle
- June Tailor’s® Starch Savvy
Pre-shrink coordinating fabrics by steaming and pressing, and steaming and pressing a second time, and then spray press and starch fabric with June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy — press and starch, press and starch..
Palette Pillow Sewing Tutorial
Prepare Fabrics from the Palette Pillow Bundle Box. We’re featuring the Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Teal Bundle Box.
Sew our Palette Pillow with our easiest ever sewing techniques, and Classic Timesaving Tips by Nancy Zieman, and see how using the right tools makes the sewing process enjoyable, even for beginners!
Note: All seam allowances are 1/2″.
Cut Fabric and Interfacing:
- Cut one 19″ x 19″ square Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Teal Fabric for Pillow “Palette” Front.
- Cut one 19″ x 46″ rectangle Yellow Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric for Pillow Back.
- Cut one 19″ x 19″ square Pellon Sof-Shape Interfacing.
- Cut TWO 4″ x 19″ rectangles Pellon Easy-Knit Interfacing.
- Following manufacturer’s instructions, press Easy-Knit Interfacing rectangles to short ends of Pillow Back/Yellow Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric.
- Fold Pillow Back rectangle, right sides together, meeting short ends. Place a pin at fold — marking center. Repeat placing pin at opposite folded edge. Set aside.
To find the right side of single knit jersey fabric, pull along the crosswise grain — the knit curls to the right side.- Following manufacturer’s instructions, press Sof-Shape Interfacing square to back of Pillow “Palette” Front/ NEW! Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Teal Fabric.
Adhere interfacing to wrong side of Pillow “Palette” Front, using an Eze-View Press Cloth. Be sure to steam and press, and use a spray mist bottle to add moisture to the pressing cloth during the fusing process!
- Position Pillow “Palette” Front fabric square wrong side up on ironing board.
- Using Clover’s Hot Ruler, press under 1/2″ toward fabric back, along top and bottom edges only.
- Fold Pillow “Palette” Front, right sides together, meeting pressed under edges. Place a pin at fold — marking center. Repeat placing pin at opposite folded edge.
- Align Pillow “Palette” Front wrong side to center of Pillow Back right side, matching center marking pins. Pin Pillow “Palette” Front to Pillow Back.
Be sure to position Pillow Palette Front to Pillow Back — aligning “cut edges” of Pillow Palette Front to “cut edges” of Pillow Back.- Using a Schmetz Universal Size 90 Needle, topstitch Pillow “Palette” Front to Pillow Back around all four edges of Pillow “Palette” Front.
- Using Clover’s Hot Ruler, turn under 2″ on each narrow end of Pillow Back; pin.
- Using a wobble stitch, stitch (or hem) narrow ends of Pillow Back — near cut edges, at both ends.
The “Wobble” Stitch! Use a “wobble” stitch when sewing knits. A wobble stitch is a very narrow zigzag stitch, that appears as straight stitching on the right side of the seam. Set machine for a zigzag stitch with a 2.5 length and .5 width.- Fold Pillow Back top over Pillow “Palette” Front, right sides together — folding along top edge of Pillow “Palette” Front. Fold Pillow Back bottom upwards — folding along Pillow “Palette” Front lower edge, covering Pillow Back top. Pin at side seams.
- Stitch side seams with 1/2″ seam allowance — creating an envelope pillow cover.
Use Clover’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Guide for accurate straight stitched seams. Simply align fabric edge to this repositionable guide.- Turn pillow cover right-side out using Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner, and shape pillow corners.
- Insert Pellon’s 18″ Throw Pillow Form through Palette Pillow Back envelope opening.
Shop Exclusive Palette Pillow Bundle Boxes and Wildflower Boutique Fabrics at ShopNZP.com
Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Teal
Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Coral
Wildflower Boutique Mosaic Green
Shop Clover Tools & Sewing Supplies at shopnzp.com!
Shop Pellon Interfacing & Supplies at shopnzp.com!
Shop Schmetz Sewing Machine Needles at shopnzp.com!
Pillow Challenge Entry Deadline is Thursday, March 24, 2022!
The Nancy Zieman Productions Team is excited to announce the 2022 Pillow Sewing Challenge, taking place March 1 – March 29, 2022! All sewers, quilters, and machine embroiderers are invited to participate in the Nancy Zieman Productions 2022 Pillow Sewing Challenge. Brainstorm, browse, design, and plan. Then, sew a pillow! Enter the NZP 2022 Pillow Sewing Challenge by emailing a hi-res photo along with your name and address, including city and state to [email protected].
Happy Stitching!
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