My Favorite DIY Fall Pillow Covers

Now that summer is behind us, here is another fun fall DIY: fall pillow covers. They are an easy way to shift the seasons.

Making the fall pillow covers yourself is inexpensive, easy, and fun. I have a favorite fall item, and I used it to inspire this brand-new pillow cover. Can you guess what my favorite fall item is?

Favorite Fall Decor Item – Fall Pillow Covers

Did you guess right?

The answer is faux pomegranates.

I share my favorite fall decor items every fall, and you probably have already seen pomegranates in my family room, kitchen, and dining room.

Something about faux pomegranates has me absolutely in love, head over heels. Perhaps it is the fruit’s deep, ruby red, pinkish color, the rustic feel of the branches, pomegranates, and leaves, or the welcome of orange tinged with red, which makes everything feel fall-like.

Whatever it is, I am smitten.

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Pomegranate Inspired Fall Pillow Covers

So, what do you think of my free-motion stitch embroidery fall pillow cover?

When I started thinking about making new pillow covers, I looked around my home and saw the faux pomegranate branches everywhere. It’s funny how inspiration can sometimes be right under your nose!

One of the easiest ways to shift seasons in your home decor is to swap out pillow covers. It is inexpensive and adds an instant pop of seasonality.

Free Motion Stitch Embroidery

What is free-motion embroidery?

Free-motion machine embroidery is a type of sewing you do on a regular sewing machine, but you can move the material in any direction while sewing it on your machine. Usually, when you sew, the machine automatically moves the fabric forward. When you sew free-motion embroidery, you can move the fabric to determine precisely where you want to sew. You can move sideways, forward, or backward, creating any shape you want—like a star! All you need is a quilting foot.

The free-motion quilting foot, sometimes called a darning foot, is designed so that the sewing machine needle passes through a small ring on the foot. Instead of hopping, these feet float over the fabric without providing pressure.  The Foot releases the fabric when the needle is up, allowing you to move the fabric freely.

All you need is the free motion foot for your machine. This foot may vary based on the type of machine, but I linked it to a “universal” one.

I read a lot about lowering the “feed dogs” on your machine when stitching free-motion embroidery. Feed dogs are the little teeth on your sewing machine that feed your fabric evenly through the machine. These teeth are essential because they help us produce perfectly spaced, even stitches whenever we sew garments, piece quilts, or applique shapes on our machine. Most people recommend that you lower the feed dogs for free-motion embroidery.

I lowered the feed dogs using a lever on my machine for this pillow. It worked perfectly.

How to Make This Pomegranate Fall Pillow

So that you know, my goal for all of my DIYs is to make something that looks expensive and high-quality but is easy to make and has an inexpensive supply list.

Pillow covers are one of my favorite DIYs for two reasons. They meet both of my goals and make a huge impact on your home decor. A bonus is that the supply list is concise. You may already have everything you need on hand!

What You Need to Make This Pillow

• Line drawing artwork – See below where to find this!
• pillow cover
• Water Soluble Marking Pen
• acrylic paints in the colors you want
• paint brush
• sewing machine and thread
• free motion embroidery foot

Don’t Be Intimidated, You Can Make This!

• one – Select your pattern. Search the internet for words such as “fruit line drawing” or “pear line drawing” or “pumpkin drawing”. You will see many line drawings you can print and use as a pattern. I used two different patterns.
• two – Print the pattern(s) and lay out the design.
• three – Trace the pattern by putting the printed pattern inside the pillow cover. You will be able to see the pattern through the fabric. Using your Water Soluble Marking Pen, trace the pattern onto the fabric.

• four – Next, mix your paint colors. I always make two shades of every color. One is a medium shade and the second is lighter (use yellow and a tiny bit of white to make it lighter.)
• five – Fill in the shapes with paint, always using two colors for every shape. Keep the colors consistent and paint the lighter shade on the same side of every shape.
• six – Add leaves, branches, and maybe even smaller items to help the pillow shapes connect.

• seven – Let the paint dry completely before you start the embroidery. Using your sewing machine’s free-motion embroidery presser foot, stitch around the painted areas to define the shapes.
• eight – Add some of the highlights by adding more stitching.
• nine – Look at how much detail the dark thread adds to the design!

When you are done, be sure to iron the pillow cover. This will set the paint into the fabric.

The before and after is always just amazing to me!

This project does not require perfection, so relax and enjoy it!

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