Stars and Stripes Pillow Tutorial
- 20 X 16 Honey Color Drop cloth canvas
- Painters Tape to tape your stripes
- Ruler or a good eye for your lines
- small star stencil
- pencil to draw the stars if you don’t want to use a stencil
- Plaid Acrylic Paints – Cardinal Crimson and Too Blue
- paint brushes to apply your paints
Cut your drop cloth flag to size. For this flag my canvas measured 20×18 . Using a ruler or a good eye apply your painters tape for your strips and star box.
Trace your stars with a pencil onto your canvas. I made 9 stars to fit. Which is okay since there were 9 colonies at one point. Apply your Cardinal Crimson paint to your stripes.
Apply your Too Blue paint to outline your stars
When it is completely dry, put your flag in the washer to soften up your material, with a bit of bleach. Using bleach gives it that old worn look
Press with an iron on the back side of the material and cut off any long strings on the edges. Leave your edges unfinished.
Apply to the front face of your pillow by sewing along the center of your cover, using a simple stitch on your machine, or by hand. Click here for my simple pillow cover tutorial.
Display your pillows proudly!
For more 4th of July projects and inspiration, search ‘4th of July in the search area on the blog.
Laura, What a great and easy tutorial! I am redoing my son's room in a Ralph Lauren type Americana decor. I will certainly make this Old Glory pillow for his new bed!
You made it look so easy and the pillow is one that really could go in any decor for summer! Beautiful photography too!
Would you please join me with this great DYI for my brand new linky party TUTORIAL TIPS AND TIDBITS? It goes live Wednesday evening at 8:00. This would be a great project to share!
LOVE IT!
Hi Laura,
Super easy tutorial. Thanks!
Dee
Oh that is just so easy and so cute! Thanks for sharing it!
Well how darn cute is that!? Great job Gal!
This is so great and a wonderful tutorial…love it!!
Laura, this is super cute! You are the bestest!! 🙂
It's painted? I wouldn't have thought it. How cool that it's done on a drop cloth. This is such a great idea. I'm going to bookmark it and get to work on making one myself. Thanks so much for the idea and "how to".
Liz
LOVE the flag! I've been feeling very red white and blue too, I bet that would look cute under your new cabana too:)
Jessica
stayathomeista.com
oh i LOVE this!!! thank you for honoring our flag!
Love it! Very cute and definitely pinworthy! Stopping by from Inspiration Friday.
Great pillow. It would be wonderful if you brought this post to this week's Seasonal Sundays.
– The Tablescaper
What a great "Pass it on Gift"….thanks for the tutorial…I am sure the gals at Uncommon Designs will be thrilled when they receive them…fantastic pillow!
Wow-you make it look so easy yet it looks professionally made. Thanks for the tutorial.
Give three cheers for the red,white, and blue! And the oars too! Love it all…great tutorial!
It definitely doesn't look hand made – love it!
Kelly
I mean it looks so professional!!!
Kelly
I am so glad I found your blog this evening. I love your red white and blue pillow.
I am a new follower and I so enjoyed visiting.
Laura
White Spray Paint
Okay….seriously. I want someone to pass this on to me 🙂 hee hee! I am going to feature this over at a dust bunny life my wonderfully creative friend!
blessings,
karianne
I love this project! I'm pinning it and really hope to try it for myself.
Very cute! I am off to buy some more drop cloth fabric!
I am now following you! Stop by my blog… I hope you will follow back!
Your pillow turned out great. I love the way you aged it with bleach.
Cute!! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!
Laura, I think this is one of the cutest pillows I have ever seen! Love it!
I love that worn fabric look on the pillow. Great job!
CAS
Your pillow is beautiful, It looks so professional. Aging it with bleach is a great tip.
I made my own after seeing your tutorial this morning!
I had such fun today! Thanks for the great idea! Stop by my blog to see my version.
Love this pillow. It looks so easy to do and with the 4th of July coming up, this is such a timely post.
So cute! I love the red, white, and blue. Thanks for the tutorial.
Love this. I've had drop cloth pillows on my to do list for a while but hadn't thought about painting them. Great idea! Thanks for sharing at this week's party!
perfect combination: Americana, simple to do, not expensive, GREAT LOOK!
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
This is so cute!!!!
Very cute!! Great job!!
Laura,
Thanks for sharing your fabulous pillow & tutorial at my Patriotic Link Party. I like your tip for adding a litle bleach to it to give it that extra worn look. Must remember that in the future!
Yipee!! This is the PERFECT pillow for my front porch bench, Laura!! My search is over… thank you, bloggy friend for this inspiration!
Can't wait to meet you at Haven!
xo Heidi
Hi Laura, just wanted to let you know I featured this as part of my link party wrap up today!
Laura, this is so cool. Love this patriotic pillow for summer. thanks so much for linking up, I'll be featuring this post on Vintage Inspiration tomorrow!
It's darling- sharing at the party tonight~ thanks for linking up at Feathered Nest Friday!
gorgeous!
This is so beautiful! You did a fantastic job. I hope you will link this up to my Patriotic Project Parade!
http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/2012/06/patriotic-project-parade-linky-party.html
This pillow is truly amazing and truly Funky Junk feature-able …
Thank you so much, my friend, for sharing at Pillowpalooza!
I've been seeing your beautiful pillow all over blogdom and couldn't resist sharing it too! I love it!
Three cheers for the red, white and blue!
You have shared such a great tutorial and I so appreciate it!
I just can't get enough of the stars and stripes this time of year!
Blessings,
Carolynn
Happy Pillowpalooza!
This is my favorite flag pillow! Thanks for sharing your easy directions. I'm going to make one today! I'm a new follower – what a great blog! Linda
Seriously this is so COOL!! I love it!! Come link up at my Paint Party! http://startathome.blogspot.com/2013/06/paint-party.html
HOpe to see you soon
Brooke
You did good, girl!
Hi Laura~
This is AWESOME!
Thank you so much for sharing this project with us. I especially LOVE the fabric that you printed it on. It's just great!
And, your vignette with the bench and the red oars — so charming.
🙂
xox
Alison
your pillow looks as good as the ones I was eyeing at Pottery Barn. Love it, and it is do do-able. I'm for sure going to try.
Laura, these pillows are making my heart sing. Thanks for sharing the tutorial. I doubt that I'll actually get any made for myself, but I can dream about having one of my very own. Happy 4th of July!
Thanks for the tutorial! I love the patriotic pillows!
Laura, I love it! Your pillow is too, too cute.
Linking from The Polo House,
Ricki Jill
This rocks!!
I wanted to make a flag poncho and I think this method will work with a little adaptation…
Not sure about the comfort of wearing a drop cloth, but it shouldn't be too hard to find a fabric that is ok for human adornment… ~:-)
Thanks for the great share!!
I love it except you didn't tell me how to apply to my pillow cover?
I couldn't find Too Blue but found True Blue. Hoping to do mine soon.