Throw Pillow

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For my 2016 Family and Consumer Science mastery project, I went made a throw pillow, that is made to hold items like remotes, out of an old pair of jeans. I found the idea for this project on Pinterest, but with no instructions attached. Before I started the project, I knew that I had to have a plan of what to do. So, I sat down and thought it all through. I thought about what I would need to do from when I turned on the machine to when I turned it off. After I had slept on my plan, I went to the Goodwill and bought an old pair of jeans. The first step to creating this pillow was to cut the pants around the knee area to turn them into more of capris. The next step was to go over to the sewing machine. I needed to line one pant leg up with the …show more content…

After that, I needed to cut the front half of the waistband off, including the button and the front two belt loops. This insured that the fabric would be easier to sew. After I did this, I sewed the flat of fabric that is over the zipper down. Next, I folded the bottom of the legs up to the top of where I cut off the waistband. Then, I sewed the bottom of the legs to the top of the previously cut waistband. The next step was to fold the side of the waistband that was not cut down over where I sewed the bottom of the pants to the top of the waistband. Doing this hid all of the uneven ends of the already sewed things. This also put the belt loops onto the back of the pillow. As I was doing this, I learned that the denim was to thick to fit underneath the presser foot of the machine, so I had to learn how to hand sew. I hand-sewed the waistband down. After that step in the process, I sewed up the left ride of the pillow with the sewing machine. Then I stuffed it. I pushed the stuffing into all of the corners and made sure that it was one hundred percent stuffed. Next, I had to hand-sew up the right side of the pillow because the material stuffed with the stuffing was too thick to fit underneath the presser

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