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Summary: Learn about sewing squares and pressing the seams for making decorative pillows in this free home decoration video on making and sewing decorative pillows.
Vicki Walker has been sewing professionally for more than 25 years. She has worked as a custom seamstress for home décor merchants in addition to operating her own business, Southern...read more
"This is Vicki Walker for Expert Village. I have cut this size rectangles of the coordinating fabric that I'm going to be using for my pillow. I'm going to sew these squares together, then to sew these squares together or rectangles. Then I would sew these 2 to the other 2 to make the basic front part of my pillow. Now we sew these 2 together. About a half a inch from the edge. Then we would sew the other 2 together until we have one large square with the 4 pieces together. We would press those seams open and in the next clip we would be adding a additional coordinating piece of fabric that would look really nice with the other 4 squares that we have already put together."