13 Floor Pillows to Sew for Your Home

How can you add extra seating to a room without investing in a new piece of furniture? Floor pillows! These large pillows provide a soft spot for people to sit on the floor. They’re great for when the kids have friends over watching movies or playing video games. They can turn any corner into a little book nook and a soft place to read. Or, stack a few of them up and you’ve got an ottoman where you can rest your feet.

Floor pillows can be expensive to buy – especially when you’re wanting to get several of them – but they’re relatively inexpensive to DIY. We’ve rounded up 13 great tutorials showing how you can sew your own floor pillows for your home.

Read on for all the pretty floor pillow sewing tutorials! Round, square, tufted, smooth, patchwork, solid – there are so many ways to sew your own floor pillows!

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Round Patchwork Floor Cushion by Sew4Home

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How to Sew a Floor Pillow, by Sisters, What!

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Color Strip Scraps Floor Cushion Tutorial by Gingercake

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One Hour Floor Cushion by Ohoh Deco

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How to Sew a DIY Floor Pillow: A Step by Step Tutorial by Fynes Designs

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Video Tutorial: How to Turn Almost Any Pillow Cover into a Box Cushion by School of Decorating

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Pom Pom Oversized Floor Pillow Tutorial by A Beautiful Mess

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Summer Floral Floor Cushion Tutorial by Pat Bravo for We All Sew

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Giant Floor Pillows DIY – With Handles by Life Sew Savory

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DIY Floor Pouf with Free Sewing Pattern by Heather Handmade

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Maypole Quilted Floor Pillow Tutorial by Suzy Quilts

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Jelly Roll Floor Pillow by PinkPlease for Moda Cutting Table

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DIY Floor Pillow by The Sorry Girls

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Well, there you have it, 13 fantastic floor pillows to sew for your home. Whether you’re looking to add some extra seating or create a cozy and comfortable space for lounging, these DIY floor pillows are sure to do the trick. From simple and minimalist designs to bold and colorful patterns, there’s something for everyone in this roundup.

I hope these links have inspired you to get creative and try your hand at sewing your own floor pillows. Not only is it a fun and rewarding activity, but it’s also a practical way to add some personality and style to your home decor. So, grab your sewing machine and some fabric, and get ready to create a cozy and inviting space that you’ll never want to leave!

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Stitch dictionaries are a fun way to learn new-to-you knitting stitch patterns or to take a deep dive into a particular technique. Debbie Tomkies offers 100 cable stitch designs and thoughts on how to incorporate them into projects in her Cable Knitting Stitch Dictionary.

Each stitch pattern is shown in a large swatch photo and with written and charted instructions. Any special stitches are included on the page. The stitches are rated on a difficulty scale of 1 to 3, and the pattern notes also indicate how many extra stitches you should add to a project if you’re going to work this cable (since cables pull the fabric closer together you need to compensate for that) as well as how many stitches and rows are in the repeat if you want to design a project yourself.

The cables are arranged into sections: classic cables, combinations, all-over panels, creative cables, motifs and panels and cabled edges and borders.

It’s fun to flip through the designs to think about projects you can add a single cable or two to or make with an allover cabled design. Or you could make swatches of different cables and sew them together into a pillow cover or a throw.

At the back of the book there’s a section on general cable knitting techniques, reading charts, working swatches and avoiding errors (though it mentions working the wrong number of rows between cable turns, it doesn’t share how to count rows between cables to avoid this mistake).

It also talks about how to design your own cables, combine cables in a project, choose the right yarn and needles and determine how many more stitches you need to cast on when working cables instead of stockinette stitch. There’s also a glossary of symbols and abbreviations you may find in cable knitting and other patterns.

The book provides a good overview of things you can do with cables, as well as some fun things you might not have tried like infinity cables and horizontal cables. It’s a great book for a designer who likes to work with cables or a knitter who wants to play with different stitches in their projects.

About the book: 176 pages, paperback, 100 stitch patterns. Published 2024 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $26.99.

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