HOW TO - MAKE EASY, CHEAP FLOOR CUSHION - WITH TASSELS

Hi, I'm Crafty Patty and today I'm going to show you how to make these gorgeous floor cushions and they're so easy and they're so cheap to make. I'm also going to show you how to make these adorable puzzles. Stay tuned and let's get started. So I went to Walmart and I bought two pillows. They're oversized and overfilled and they are like four dollars each. So for my floor cushion it's only going to cost me eight dollars for the filling and for the cover and filling as well. If you buy that in the bulk at the fabric store, again very expensive. This is the best way to do it. So I'm going to be ripping down this one seam here, take out the stuffing of both pillows and then I'll be sewing it back up so I've got an actual square. So I'm just going to cut along the edge of the pillow here and we can open it up so we can get the stuffing out and then I'll be using this fabric to make my inside lining bag for the pillow. So this is the bag that the pillow came in and what I'm going to be doing is when I pull out some of the stuffing I'm just going to pull on it and re-fluff it and this is what you should do anyways before you stuff a pillow form. So I'm just going to continue to take all this out and I'll do that with the other pillow as well. So I'm just going to even up my cut edge from my first pillow here. The length of my pillow is 28 inches so I need to make this side 28 inches as well. Right now I have 20 inches so that means I need another 8 inches to make it square. So I'm going to use 8 inches of this pillow plus I'll add another inch to allow for seam allowance. So I will cut this one 9 inches. Now I'm going to turn these so the right side is to the inside so then we're just going to slip in the little piece into the inside here and then I'll start on the edges here and I'll just place my two right sides together matching up the seams. Come down to the other end and the easiest way I find is just to get a nice little stretch and come into the very middle. Pin there and then keep coming into halves. Just give it a stretch and pin again and pin all the way around. So this is the section I'm leaving open so I will start sewing at this pin here and I've allowed for a one inch seam so we will sew at about between five eighths and one inch seam allowance. So we'll just start and make sure you backstitch just to secure that because that will be the opening there and we'll see you at the other end. And I'm back to my other pin. This is where I started leaving the opening and we'll just backstitch. So I've just ironed the opening down. It'll just make it so much easier for when you want to sew this closed. So let's just reverse this now so the right side is to the outside and now we have a square petal and we have our opening right here. So now we're going to put all that stuffing back into the bag. Now what I like to do is I take just some spare yarn or string and I tie it into the middle here just to pull this up until this meets and it takes the pressure off when you try to sew that. So I'll just tie a knot here and I'll do one more on this side as well. That really makes it easier for sewing. Then you can just slide it along to get it out of the way if you need to and now it just butts up nicely and I can sew along and close up that seam. So I'm just going to use some double thread and start from the inside for my first stitch so the end of my thread is hidden and then I'm just going to do a slip stitch. So I'll just come back into the other side and over and through to both sides and continue across until you've got your whole opening closed up. And to finish off your sewing you'll want to just come in and loop it through so it ties the knot. You might want to do that one more time and then bring your needle through your material and up about an inch away and then cut off your end and that will be nicely secured inside your pillow. To make a cover for a pillow generally speaking you make it one inch smaller than your pillow. So being that this is a very overstuffed pillow I'm going to make it the same size so it fits. This was 28 inches by 28 inches and I'm going to do the fold over method to slip in the pillow so I don't have to do a zipper. So I've made two more pieces that measure 29 inches by 22 inches and then we'll just sew it over to enclose that seam. This will make close over and then the pillow will be able to go inside like so and about a good five-eighths inch or to an inch and we'll sew that along. And then once you've sewed down that edge you'll come back and turn it in again and sew down again. Pin our right sides together and go around and around the edge and then once you've got this pinned around you can add your second piece and of course this one again right sides together and this one will overlap the other one and that will allow us to be able to open up and put our pillow inside. So you'll sew all the way around so now that I've added this in here I can take this pin out and all these layers will be sewed together like so all the way around and then I can reverse it to the other side and there we have one nice big floor cushion and easy to take off if you want to wash the cover. Now I've been adding my tassels to the pillow and this is amazing how much fun it makes the pillow look. You really want to add the tassels and they're so easy to make and I'm going to show you how to do that right now. So I found some yarn that was complementary to the fabric of the pillow. I've cut a couple pieces that are about two feet long and now I've got two pieces of cardboard and I'm just wanting the tassel on this particular pillow to be a little bit longer so I'm going to actually make these six and a half inches long from my tassels. I'm just going to take one piece of the yarn that I've already cut. I'm just going to pop that inside and that's going to be used to tie the top off later and now I'm going to come in with my ball of yarn and I'm going to wrap this 60 times I've wrapped my 60 times and I've ended with my last strand to the bottom and now I can take the one piece I've got inside and just pull that out, bring it up to the top and we're going to tie it in a tight knot. Give it a really tight pull. You can hold on with your finger and tie it in a knot and now I can slide that off the cardboard. You can just give it a little bit at the end if it's tight and I'm just going to come around one more time to secure that top knot. So go this way with this strand and this way with the other strand and tie that one more time nice and tight. Those strands will be used to tie that onto my panel and now I can come down. Make sure I've got them all on the right side. Give it a little bit of a even tug and we're going to cut the ends here. So now that I know where the end is I'm just using my two fingers to find out where my end is and then I can cut right in between there. Don't cut your fingers of course. Now we're going to come in with our piece of string that we cut that was 24 inches. We're going to bring it up to the top here and we're going to form the top part of our tassel. Again we're going to just tie a nice tight knot and I'm down about an inch away. Give it a nice tight pull. Hold with your finger and tie a knot and now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to bring that around a few more times. One, two, and this one I'll bring around the other way. One and two and then we're going to tie it off again. Later I'll bring these down with the needle to hide that knot and pull it down inside, but the next thing you should do now is make a nice even tassel. You're going to come in and you're going to pull down on every one of these strands and that's going to even out your top strand so it's nice and tidy on the top. I will just continue to pull down on each one of these and then we'll come right back to you. Now once you've got all your strands pulled down so they're nice and tidy, come in and thread your yarn with a very large eye darning needle and then you're just going to take these strands and bring them down into the middle of your tassel so it'll hide your knot. Bring that down and it'll pull the knot to the inside and the same with the other side and now your knot will be hidden on the inside. Now we're ready to attach it to our pillow. Sometimes when you're pulling through a lot of thickness you might need something to grip onto so I've got just my little finger thumb protectors that I use for needle felting and that will help to pull on the needle to pull it through. I'm going to take one of my strands and then because we're working with a thick, well it's actually a four ply, but thick for to go through an eye of a needle, I'm going to try to force it over the eye of the needle, pull down really hard, slide it off and then it should go through your needle. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to come through the seam on this side but not really in the seam, just to the edge of the fabric here and through to the other side. This is where I'm going to use my grippers just so I can pull that through. All right so through it comes, cinch that right up to the top. I'm going to come into where the thread is coming through right through the top part of the tassel and through to the other side. Really cinch that up right up into the pillow. I'm going to come through again. I'm going to go up a little bit higher this time, pull that through, put a really good tug and then back through. So I'm going to leave that strand there. I'm going to turn over my pillow and now with my other strand I'm going to come through on this side just to make it nice and strong because chances are if this was going to home with small children, they're going to want to pull on these tassels. So we want them really strong. Okay so again I'm going to go through the top part of my fabric here and I've got quite a few layers of fabric in here so I'm just trying to maneuver it so I'm not going through so many thicknesses that it's going to be hard to pull that through. And of course you can always use your finger grippers if it's difficult to pull through. Again just really pull that up to the pillow, come back through, cinch it up and let's go through again. Really pull it up again and through the top of the tassel again. And I'm going to come out where my other strand is. I'm just going to leave that threaded because I'm still going to thread through and I'm just going to tie a knot. Good tight knot. Now I'm going to come back in to the center of my ball to hide that knot. Give it a good tug. Come back in with my other strand and again pull it through the center of your tassel and give it a tug. You've now really secured that nice and strong to your pillow. And then the last thing you need to do is comb down all your pieces of yarn. Make sure they're all even and grab your ends and trim. And don't cut your fingers of course. And there you have your completed tassel. So fun. I love the tassels on the pillow. They really make a big difference. I love it.