DIY Rustic Christmas Pillow {$5 No Sew!}

My budget is doing a happy dance over my new rustic Christmas tree pillow. What? Your budget doesn’t dance?

Here’s how my budget works, as described in an odd analogy…. I spend money on glorious things like the pantry. This makes the budget sad. The budget eats lots of ice cream to console itself.  But we need the budget to be around for a long time. It needs to be healthy! I must make the budget dance off all those ice cream calories! Cheap projects like this make the budget dance, and all is right in the world again. Totally makes sense, right?

My Christmas decor plan this year is a modern rustic vintage fusion with a healthy dose of plaid, felt, and {faux} fur.  Hopefully it works in reality as well as it works in my head! I needed some new throw pillows to help pull my crazy plan together, but have you seen the price of pillows in stores? I’m still upset about the pillow I stalked at Target last year that refused to go on clearance even AFTER Christmas. I knew my new pillows would need to be DIY’d.

When we were at IKEA picking up all the frames for the gallery wall, I spotted some GURLI plain pillow covers on sale. The full price is $4, which is still a bargain since it gets me out of sewing my own covers. No IKEA near you? Drop cloth pillow covers are also budget friendly. If you want to go that route, Katie from Addicted 2 DIY has a great tutorial here. You’ll also need some scrap white yarn, green felt to make a tree, a tiny rectangle of brown felt for the trunk, and Liquid Stitch or another fabric glue. First, I folded the felt in half and taped the long side together so I could cut out a tall triangle. You’ll want to go at a steeper angle than I did in the pic below or you’ll end up with a ridiculously short tree. Do what I say and not what I do! I assembled my tree with Liquid Stitch (affiliate link) before attaching it to the pillow. This part could be a fun kid’s project. In addition to the yarn snow and felt stump,  I added a wood button to the top of the tree, but honestly I liked the tree better without it. We’ll call it the optional button. To add my yarn snow, I squiggled on a row of glue and then gently placed the yarn over it. Then I did it again and again until my tree was snow-covered. Liquid Stitch dries clear, so don’t panic if you try this and something isn’t perfect. When I had all the rows glued, I trimmed the excess yarn. The last step was adding glue to the back of my tree so I could attach it to my pillow. Maybe I should have taken the label off the back? Oops! I used a fall pillow to stuff my sweet new pillow cover. It’s awesome that I got this new look without having another pillow to store somewhere!  I kinda want to rip the button off. Or Rub ‘n Buff it gold. How do you feel about the wood button? The felt & yarn give it a rustic vintage look, but the tree shape is modern. I just love how well the pillow works with my plaid accents! What’s your Christmas decorating style?

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