Rolled Fabric Rosette Pillow

11:12 PM

Here's a decor pillow cover I've been planning on sewing for a while. I'm sure you've seen fabric flower tutorials all over blogs for a long time.
Here is a tutorial that is probably the closest to what I ended up doing-- from Ashley at Make It and Love It.
{for mine, I just made them huge starting with strips 5" wide and 50" long}

I finally make a few.

I had some left over scraps from the living room curtains, which I used to make the flowers.

I took about 5" strips and folded it in half wrong sides together.

Then I serged the bottom raw edges, then hand sewed each layer around the center.

Ashley's tutorial again for more detailed steps

To make the flowers more open rather than tall and tight, I eventually had to sew each layer just to the layer before it. So if you flipped a flower upside down, everything wasn't sewn to the center, but more in a spiral.

To finish the end, I just folded it under.

I just made a pillow cover so I can wash it. You could use my tutorial here for the pillow cover, and just sew your flowers on the front.

I machine sewed each flower to the pillow front, just sewing as close to the center as I could around the outer most layer.

For the border, I found a strip of trim from my aunt's stash she gave me. It matched perfectly, what luck!

For being such a quick project, it sure took me months to finally get to it and use the scraps. The most tedious part was hand sewing the flowers, but all in all a pretty simple pillow that adds a lot of texture to the room.