Super Cheap Polyester Fiberfill...

Hi Everyone...some of you may remember when hubby and I went to Ikea last fall. Click here if you want to read all about it. It's not like reading Gone With The Wind, but it has cinnamon buns in it. LOL !!

On that trip, we bought 2 pillows for 99 cents each. Yes, 99 cents!! My original thought was to buy them for pillow shams on our bed. However, we have used them to sleep with. They are the most ridiculous pillows ever. The fiberfill is bunched up and separated, but for some reason we love them. You can mold them any which way to fit your neck. We've tried all the expensive pillows too....down feathers, memory foam etc, but these are what we use.

Ok, focus Karen...that isn't the point of the post.

I was lying there in bed thinking...this is polyester fiberfill, just like the kind we all use in crafting. 

The pillows are 13 ounces of fiber fill for 99 cents. That ladies is the cheapest crafting fiber fill ever. I just looked online and it can run from $2-$13.00

Uses for pillow stuffing...

• stuff handmade children's toys


• pincushions


• Christmas ornaments


• cut the bed pillow down to a square and sew the edge up for a square pillow form. Those forms are expensive


• pillow sham forms

Here are the dimensions and info I found on their site.

Product dimensions

Length: 20 "
Width: 26 "
Filling weight: 13 oz
Total weight: 14 oz

Length: 51 cm
Width: 66 cm
Filling weight: 365 g
Total weight: 390 g

Unfortunately you can't order the pillows online. If you live near an Ikea or any store that sells cheap pillows, check them out.

Shop for fiber fill with a "Sew Many Ways" mind...thrifty!!

Take care,

~Karen~

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Hand Sewing Blind Hem Tutorial...

I'm back again...I just did a post on how I turned this sale tablecloth into 3 pillows and a tote bag.




Here's the pillow, but I also wanted to show you how to close up the opening on the bottom with a blind hem.



Here is the opening on the bottom of the pillow...pinned along the way.

Take your needle with a single knotted thread and bring the thread through towards you, so the knot is on the inside of the layer closest to you. Seen here in the picture below.

Now take your needle and bring it through the fabric right across from where the thread is coming out on the other side. (I hope this makes sense..hard to explain in written form)

Keep the needle inside the fabric under the fold for about 1/4" to 1/2" and then poke it out a little from the fold. See the tip of the needle coming out?

Now bring the point of the needle towards you and grab a little bit of fabric from the fold of the other side closest to you.

Pull snug. Now you do the same thing again.

Place the needle across from where the thread is coming out, travel under the fold and come out towards you and grab a little fabric from the other fold.

It's called a blind hem, because the stitch that keeps the fabric closed together is under the folded part of the 2 edges of fabric.

Just keep doing the same all the way across the opening.

The stitches are hidden under the folds instead of the whipped stitch or a machine stitch showing on the outside.

I hope this makes sense...let me know if you have any questions.

~Karen~

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