Thanksgiving Placemat to Pillow Cover in 10 Minutes

Thanksgiving Placemat Pillow Cover

I love a quick project. And I love pillow covers. They are such an easy way to change up your decor easily and inexpensively. Plus, it is so much easier to store a pillow cover than a pillow with an insert. All you have to do is take the pillow cover off and change it out for a new one.

A few years ago I discovered that a really easy way to make a pillow cover is with a cloth napkin or placemat.

So when I saw this GRATEFUL gold placemat at Target’s Dollar Spot a couple of weeks ago I knew it would be so cute as a pillow!

Thanksgiving Placemat Pillow Cover

Here’s how you can turn a placemat into a pillow cover in 10 minutes:

Supplies:

Placemat

Fabric – You will need about twice as much fabric as the size of the pillow cover.

Sewing machine, or needle and thread.

Thanksgiving Placemat Pillow Cover

Directions:

Measure the placemat you are going to use. You will need two pieces of fabric that are the same height as the placemat and about 4 inches less in length than your placemat. So if your placemat is 19 inches in length and 14 inches in height, you need two pieces of material that are 15 inches in length and 14 inches in height.

Once your backs are cut out, sew a seam down one side the height of each of the pieces of material.

Then lay your placemat on your cutting surface with the right side toward you. Lay each of the two pieces of backing material on top of the placemat with their right sides facing inside toward the right side of your placemat. You want the sewn edges of the material to overlap in the middle of the pillow cover, with the outside edges facing inward. You are going to turn the whole thing inside out once you sew it.

Then sew along the edges of the placemat, sewing the two pieces of backing fabric onto the pillow cover.

Turn the pillow cover inside out, which exposes the outside of the pillow cover.

Insert your pillow form.

Enjoy your new pillow cover!

Easy peasy!!

Here are a couple other tutorials I have done on making pillow covers:

Six Tips to Create Easy Pillow Covers

Easy Spring Pillow Cover Ideas

How to Make Corded Pillow Covers

How to make a Stenciled Pillow Cover

How to make a Heat Transfer Pillow Cover 

How to make a Valentine’s Day Pillow Cover 

How to make a Painted Pillow Cover

How to make a pillow cover out of napkin

How to make a Geometric Cut Pillow Cover 

Have you ever made a pillow cover? 

Share your ideas with us in the comments! 

xoxo