Pottery Barn Knock-Off Pillow
September 24, 2010 by Bobbi
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Hi! My name is Cheri! I’m a mother of two boys and I love having a project, eating anything sweet, and finding a bargain. Today I’m going to show you how to make this Pottery Barn knock-off pillow. (I’m referring to the four in the back and not the front ruffled ones.)
I loved this pillow right when I saw it and ripped out the page to save it for inspiration. When my sister decided to redo her bedroom I told her I’d make her this pillow in her color scheme. It was easy and if you’re afraid of the sewing machine then don’t panic. There was VERY LITTLE sewing involved.
She had purchased this pillow, so I measured it and cut a front and back from felt.
Before sewing the pillow together I did all the embellishing. If you’d like to make this pillow I’ve tried to make it super easy for you. You can print out my free PDF files of the two flowers I drew. There are two different flowers and you can print them HERE and HERE. I used three of the little flowers and two of the bigger flowers.
I pinned my flower pattern to the felt and cut out the number I needed. Then I cut the pattern down to the next layer of the flower and did the same, continuing on until I had all the layers for all of my flowers.
Next, I arranged them on the pillow in a way that looked pleasing to me. Remember, you don’t want to get too close to the edge because you need a little room to sew the pillow.
Then I took the same floss and free-hand stitched leaves next to some of the flowers.
I want to thank the ladies of How Does She for letting me come over and play today. And all of you readers are more than welcome to stop in at my
place anytime. Thanks!
What did I tell you? Fabulous, right? I just HAVE to make one, or two… or a dozen 
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I’m completely distracted by the mustaches on the boys’ cups – so cute!
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Love the pillows!
oh sweet
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Gorgeous! I’m making these for my living room TODAY!
Love getting inspiration from Pottery Barn. great job! I’m making one of these for my daughter’s bed in her college apartment. Thanks!
So cute I love the pillow
Thanks for sharing with us. I think I may just make a few pillows to give as Christmas gifts.
Love the pillow! I wanted to share a trick for placing the pattern on the felt. My mom used to always use felt and the pattern would always shift even when pinned, so she uses butcher paper, traces the pattern on the paper and irons the glossy part of the paper to the felt. It gives just the right amount of stick and doesn’t shift while cutting.
Thanks for the tutorial
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Love this! I need to make some for my living room. I wonder if you could wash the felt if they get dirty. Or if it shrinks. I got kids, so I want to make something that it’ll be ok to get messy if it happens by accident.
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Oh my, that is one beautiful pillow. Thanks for the tutorial.
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These pillows are OH SO CUTE!And the owl too! Thanks for the tutorial! It look simple enough for me to do
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Love, love, love this! Thanks!!
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LOVE! Thanks for sharing!
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Cheri…I adore you and your craftiness. The pillows were down perfectly! THe yellow is quite beautiful.
LOVE the pillows! I’m having a problem printing the post though. Is there a trick to printing items from your blog? I’d love to have these instructions for my “craft file”. Thanks so much!
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