Blue Pumpkin Pillow

Are you looking for a cute DIY fall pillow that is it easy for anyone to make? This beautiful chinoiserie no sew blue pumpkin pillow will fit the bill! Anyone can make it in an afternoon! No sewing skills required!

I decorated for fall in my dining room this year in shades of blue and neutral tones. This was the first time I have done fall decor in blue. Let’s just say, I am smitten! I will be sharing that decor with you next week so stay tuned for that. After making my decoupage pumpkins with this pretty blue and white Chinoiserie fabric, I was inspired to use it to also make a blue pumpkin pillow to fit in with my color scheme.

I have made several pillow covers in the past that have included sewing in the process. Here are some of those tutorials if you are interested.

However, for this DIY pumpkin pillow, I wanted to make it quick and easy! I also love the fact that anyone could make this pillow. You don’t have to have any sewing skills or even own a sewing machine for that matter. This pillow took me only about an hour to make so it hit the goals of both quick and easy!

Not only is the fabric really pretty, but I love the outline of the pumpkin with the jute rope and the detail of the swirly vine.

If the fabric or color is not your cup of tea, no worries because you can use whatever fabric you want! That is the beauty of DIY projects and why I am such a fan of decorating with them. If I can’t find what I am looking for or don’t want to pay too much for it, I just make it! Ha!

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Supplies needed to make a no sew pumpkin pillow

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18″ x 18″ Plain neutral colored pillow cover – I got mine at Hobby Lobby but I don’t think they are selling pillow covers anymore. 🙁 I have linked to similar ones for you.
Fabric of your choice – Again, I found my fabric at Hobby Lobby. You don’t need much, maybe a 1/4 yard.
Fusible Webbing
Hot Glue Gun
Scissors
Jute Rope
Iron
Pumpkin Templates – find below

Print out the pumpkin templates

The first step is to print out the pumpkin templates onto a piece of card stock. You can get them by clicking on the links below:

Any light colored card stock will work, just use whatever you have around. When you are printing, make sure you print this template at 100% to make sure the size is correct. Every printer is different so just make sure your settings are not set to ‘fit to page‘ or that the box is not checked letting your printer make changes. The middle portion of the printed pumpkin template should be 7.5″ tall. After you print the pumpkin and stem with the vine, just cut them out with some sharp scissors.

How to make a blue pumpkin pillow

The next step is to trace those pumpkin parts onto the backing paper side of the fusible webbing you are using. You won’t have to worry about reversing the image with this pumpkin, it doesn’t matter which way it faces. Save the original printed pieces for later after you trace them.

Cut out the images on the fusible webbing leaving a space around the image, do not cut directly on the line yet, you will do that after you iron it down to the fabric.

Iron pumpkin parts onto fabric

If your fabric has a back side, you will want to iron these pieces down on the wrong side of the fabric like I am doing here. Try to line up the pumpkin parts close together so the pattern on the fabric stays in the same arrangement. Using a dry setting, iron the fusible webbing pieces onto your fabric.

Now you will cut the pieces out again, this time directly on the line.

Iron on the pumpkin and stem

First remove the backing paper from the pumpkin parts. The adhesive will be stuck to the fabric already from the first ironing.

Line up the pumpkin parts onto your pillow cover. You can use your saved original printed pieces to help you line up how your pumpkin image should look if you want. Make sure the pillow cover is flat and has no wrinkles on it. You may even want to measure across the pillow to make sure your pumpkin is placed directly in the center. Or you can just eye it. 😉

When you have the pumpkin parts placed where you want them, using a dry iron, press and lift the iron on the images. Do not slide the iron around because you may shift the images doing it that way.

Here’s how mine came out. Don’t worry about the space between the pumpkin parts, that will all be covered with rope in the next step.

Add jute rope outline to DIY pumpkin pillow

Lastly, we will add the jute rope to outline all the pumpkin parts. Start by adding a bead of hot glue following along the space between the pumpkin parts. Just do a little bit at a time as you go along. Then lay the rope onto the hot glue, pressing it down as you go.

When you get to your starting point, measure the rope until it lays on the starting rope and cut it off where they join up.

Follow along the outside edges of the pumpkin gluing the jute rope down in the same manner and cut the rope where it meets the middle rope outline. Use this same process to outline the stem as well.

Draw the vine onto the pillow

I was not able to directly trace the swirly vine onto the pillow cover. What I did was lay it down where I wanted it, hold my pen above the stencil and slide the stencil out of the way. I would then make a mark on the pillow cover where my pen was. Then I did that again a little further down of the vine. I would lightly draw in the line in between the two marks. Keep doing this until you have the vine all drawn on. You can see how this is done in the video.

Finally I hot glued the rope on following along the swirly line.

Display your blue pumpkin pillow

For all my pillows, I use the Fdjarar pillow inserts from Ikea. The are down feather pillows and are amazing! You can lean on them while laying on the couch, get up and fluff them up and they are like new again! Plus they are comfortable to lean against, unlike stiff throw pillows.

What do you think? Easy, right? Would you try to make a pillow like this one? I would love to see all of the pillows you guys make! I will be back next week with my blue fall decor. That will be my last post before we get to Christmas content!! Whoo-hoo! I mean we are good now that we are past Halloween, right? Ha! Chat soon friends! In the meantime, I will be busy putting up my trees and listening to Christmas music. 😉