I found the most beautiful pastel velvet fabric at Joann’s Fabric and knew it would be great for making pillows. A few months back, I saw these Anthropologie tasseled velvet pillows and thought how easy they would be to recreate. I bought some embroidery thread and got to work. Check out the full tutorial below!
Materials:
- Velvet in the color of your choice
- Embroidery thread (3 per tassel)
- Scissors
- Large needle
- Needle and thread
- Ball Head Pins
- Sewing Machine
- Pillow Insert
Make tassels following this tutorial. Make sure to not wrap the tassels too tight so that the needle easily slides through. Leave a 4 inch tail at the top of each tassel.
I wanted to create a light to dark tassel so we start at the bottom with the darker colored tassel. Thread the needle with the loose tassel thread.
Push the needle through the middle of the next colored tassel and pull it through. Then, thread the needle with the loose thread from both tassels and push it through the final tassel.
Tie a double knot at the top of the tassels using all three threads. Cut off the excess threads
I decided to make pillow covers instead of sewn pillows. To cut the piece of velvet, measure the diameter of your pillow. My pillow was 18 inches in diameter so I cut an 18 inch wide piece of velvet. This velvet is stretchy so I didn’t add an allowance for the seam. For the length, I added 6 inches, for a total of 24 inches. My final piece measured 18″ x24″.
Fold your fabric so that the ends overlap making sure the final shape measures the same as the diameter of your pillow, so the 18 inches.
Pin together the edges of the fabric on the open sides. Sew the edges and trim the excess fabric to tidy up the seams. Flip the fabric right-side out.
Insert your pillows. Honestly, I like the pillows like this and you could just stop here and have some beautiful tasseled velvet pillows.
Use a needle and thread to attach the tassels to each corner of the pillow.
And you’re done!
