Enjoy the afternoon sunlight streaming through the window while staying at home on the weekend, creating a pillow with your own hands, and taking a comfortable nap. Life can be this simple and blissful. Here are the tools and materials needed for making an elegant cotton patchwork pillow: six pieces of fabric in different colors, a zipper, PP cotton, and backing cloth (you can choose the color of the fabric yourself). The material sizes are as follows (including a 0.7cm seam allowance): Six types of main fabric: 6cm. Fabric A: 6 pieces, Fabric B: 6 pieces, Fabric C: 6 pieces, Fabric D: 12 pieces, Fabric E: 13 pieces, Fabric F: 6 pieces. Two pieces of backing cloth: 26cm * 48cm. Zipper: 40cm.
Detailed steps: Arrange the floral and plaid fabrics alternately, horizontally and vertically, each with 7 pieces to form a large square. Start by sewing horizontally, with a 0.7cm seam allowance (you can use a quick piecing method). Take the first and second pieces of the first horizontal row, align them face-to-face and sew them together. Then, sew the third piece to the second piece, face-to-face, with a 0.7cm seam allowance, and so on, until you have sewn a row of 7 pieces. When ironing, direct the seam allowance towards the darker fabric piece. First, sew and iron the horizontal rows, then sew the vertical ones. Pay attention to aligning the corners of the squares. After sewing and ironing the vertical rows, ensure that the seam allowances are facing the same direction.
