Yep, it’s another pillow. Sorry about that. But I just couldn’t pick one! They are both so beautiful.
This one’s been tackled by many talented craft bloggers already*, but I wanted to put my own spin on it. Here’s the original:
(found here)
The Pottery Barn version has really nice wool felt hand stitched petals. I loved that look, but didn’t want to spend the money. Instead of using craft felt, I decided to buy an actual (fake) poinsettia and glue it on. I love that it has the texture of the original, and the fake petals are velvety like felt too.
If you want to make this pillow, first start with a plain, solid colored pillow. You don’t even have to make it yourself, though this is a super fast and cheap project if you have the right fabric in your stash and some fiberfill.
Buy a few fake poinsettia flowers with large petals, and cut off the petals. Arrange 5 of them on your pillow:
Then run a line of hot glue down the spine of each petal and glue them in place.
Add 1 or 2 more layers in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Add tiny jingle bells one at a time using little spots of hot glue. After the first layer is dry, you can hot glue a few more jingles on top of them to make it more full.
That’s it! Pretty simple for a $30 pillow, huh? I’m really loving the look of the petals here. I know if I tried to make them from felt they would never look this realistic.
Once again, if this tutorial totally wore you out, please elect to nap elsewhere. I think those jingles would leave a nasty mark.
*I would be completely remiss if I did not mention that Christie from A Lemon Squeezy Home totally made this first, and has a much more thorough tutorial for it also. I missed her post because it was during my month-long trip to the states (my google reader got totally overwhelmed and I had to just delete them all and start from scratch. Trying not to dwell on all the crafty awesomeness I missed). As far as I know, she’s the only other one who used actual poinsettia petals. I’ll be linking to the felt versions in our round-up on Friday.
This looks so pretty….gosh my to do next year list is growing so stinking fast. I’m going to be stuck in Christmas land all year! lol
Oh well think of how pretty my house will be! :)
Amanda
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I love the red. It really stands out and looks more “Christmas-y”
Such a cute idea!!
Thanks, your blog inspired me to make one. I used burlap and a glittery green poinsettia! Thanks for giving a novice crafter like my self the courage to recreate and not go into debt purchasing the Pottery Barn version!
This is awesome!! Just found y’all through ucreate!!
I love this project! I think I am going to give the felt petals a go — thanks!!!
Here’s mine! Thanks for the tutorial! http://theprettypickle.blogspot.com/2010/12/poinsettia-pillow.html
I love the red as well! Thanks for linking you two!
I love it! thanks for sharing.
– great pillow! I’m going to use a large brooch I’ve got for the center instead of bells.