No Sew Placemat Pillow

Last year I saw all these DIY bloggers making pillows out of placemats and I thought it was a genious idea. So right after last Christmas I scoped out Target and found this placemat for $1.98.

I snapped it up and decided that I would be ahead of the game and make a pillow from it some time this summer so that when winter rolled around I could just pull it out and be ready to go.  Well, I made it on Saturday.  Yup, totally ahead of the game.  But the good news is that it is such a quick and easy project that it only took a few minutes.  Here’s how you can make one:

Step 1: Pick out a placemat that has two pieces of fabric sewn together so that you can put stuffing inside.

Step2: Use a seam ripper (or scissors or knife) to cut one of the stitches and pull out enough thread to open up a hole to stuff the pillow.

Step 3: Fill the inside with stuffing.  I stole some stuffing from a pillow from our old couch that we got rid of last year.  You could use polyfill if you don’t happen to hoard old pillows.

Step 4: Close up the opening.  I used my hot glue gun to glue the front and back fabrics together.  I also put a little dot on top of the threads to keep them from unraveling any more.  If you prefer you could stitch the opening closed.

And that’s it!  You’ve now got a new Christmas pillow for only a couple of dollars and a few minutes of time.

I love the snowflake detail on the pillow.

This year after Christmas I highly recommend that you head out and find some clearanced placemats to turn into pillows.  It’s so much less expensive than buying Christmas pillows.  I know that’s what I’ll be doing!