Ruffle Pillow Tutorial

Don’t you love ruffles? They make everything so happy! I have seen ruffle pillows all over the internet and I have been wanting to try one. This is my version; I hope you want to make one too!

Choose your fabrics. I wanted my pillow colorful, so I choose this aqua, orange & yellow print from xo.gigi fabrics.com. I love it! Then I choose a thin white cotton with a textured dot.

This is the fun part because you get to rip your fabric. I snipped my white fabric every 2 inches then ripped all the way down the width of the fabric.

I used my gathering foot to make the ruffling go really fast. If you don’t have a ruffling foot, just sew a gathering stitch and gather by hand. (if you like ruffles you must get this foot – it is so much fun!)

My pillow form is 18″ so I cut my front and back piece 19″. I inserted my invisible zipper before I sewed the ruffles on. It made it easier. For my back I choose a piece of neutral colored linen.

If you are picky you should measure this part, I just eyeballed it. I placed my ruffles so there was about 1 inch between each row. I wanted to see the fabric through the ruffles. If you want a ruffle-only pillow you could use plain fabric and place the ruffles right up next to each other.

This part takes a while because it requires a lot of pinning. Half way through I was almost temped to get out the hot glue gun and make this project go really fast!