If you are not indifferent to interior decoration and pay special attention to textiles, then most likely you have ever seen or even bought pillows, bedspreads decorated with convex folds that make up complex relief patterns. Perhaps you thought that it was impossible to make such beauty with your own hands, and even to a beginner. In fact, the work uses a fairly simple scheme. Puffs are easy to create using just a thread with a needle. Of course, patience, accuracy, as well as the ability to clearly follow the instructions will be required.
Beautiful decor
If you work a lot with fabric, sew textile souvenirs, curtains, clothes, etc., then extra shreds always remain, not only very small, but also quite large. Of these, you can create amazingly beautiful accessories, for example, pillows with a relief surface consisting of curly folds. For their manufacture, the same scheme is used. Puffs are created by tightening the fabric at points that are placed in accordance with the markings made according to the pattern.
The result is a very spectacular air folds, going one after another in series.
Types of folds
If you make puffs with your own hands, you can take ready-made schemes or, having understood the principle, develop them yourself. The meaning of the work is that on the fabric, usually from the inside, but sometimes from the front side, a matrix of cells is drawn, at the vertices of which dots are placed. They will need to be connected with a thread in a certain sequence and pattern. The patterns are very different:
- Concentric (walking in a circle from the edges to the center).
- Linear (from left to right in one strip).
- Multi-row (usually used for pillows).
- Complex ornamental patterns (a certain similar or different pattern is created in the center of the pillow and in the corners).
As for the shape, the folds can be in the form of bows, flowers, waves, a system resembling weaving, scales.
Buffer Applications
Since a simple scheme is used to create such a beautiful decor, puffs can be taken as the basis for any textile decoration. Such spectacular folds decorate the surfaces of the following things:
- Pillows (pillowcases).
- Bedspreads and rugs.
- Curtain and lambrequins.
- Puffs.
- Bags.
- Dresses, sundresses, blouses.
- Scarves and hats.
- Fabric headbands for hair.
In fact, you can apply this technology to any textile product that has a flat plane to create wrinkles.
Useful Tips
Below various buffs (schemes) will be presented. Step-by-step work is not difficult, but it will require perseverance and calculations. There are points to which special attention should be paid:
- The amount of fabric needed to create folds is usually taken in double the size of the finished product, that is, if you have a 40 x 40 pillow, then you will take a 80 x 80 square (if the entire surface is evenly filled) plus allowances for the seams when the pillowcase is shortened. In complex patterns, determine empirically, for example, by trying to make a pattern element on a small patch, the original size of which you will measure, and then see how much it has decreased and make calculations.
- The cell size can also be any. Naturally, for a bedspread it will be more than for a pillow, but it all depends on the chosen pattern. Usually the distance between adjacent points is 1.5-2.5 cm.
- To make puffs, schemes must be transferred step by step very carefully and carefully with a special marker for the fabric, which can then be removed. It is better to designate not only points, but also guiding the movement of the thread.
Here are the main tips to consider when preparing and in the process.
What is required
In fact, nothing complicated is needed. The main thing is your accuracy and patience. As for materials and fixtures, they are as follows:
- The fabric is the right size (preferably thin).
- Needle.
- Thread in the color of the material.
- Scissors.
- Washable or fade marker for fabric.
- Ruler.
- Sample pattern on paper.
- Beads (to decorate the contraction and visible threads, for example, in a pattern with flowers).
As you can see, nothing complicated. If it is problematic to buy a special marker, use an ordinary simple pencil and an eraser for fabric or just finely sharpened chalk or remnant for drawing lines, although this is not so convenient.
Beautiful pillow: puffs (patterns)
The first illustration below shows one of the simple templates. The numbers indicate the sequence of contraction of points. For each element of the pattern, it is the same: the thread hangs at the lower left point of the square, then diagonally, then to the neighboring left and again diagonally in the opposite direction. The thread is fixed first, and then moves on to the next element.
The sequence of connecting the dots does not necessarily indicate the fabric. If you remember so, just draw the guides for the stitches.
Patterns symmetrical and mirrored with respect to the center of the square look very impressive, but according to the first scheme, you can also create an interesting texture of the surface of the product.
DIY Pillows: Puffs
Schemes, as already mentioned, can be used by anyone. Even the simplest assembled options look very impressive. The sequence of work will always be as follows:
- Cut a flap of fabric of the desired shape and size.
- Prepare a pattern scheme (draw it yourself or download the template from the Internet).
- Turn the fabric over to the wrong side and draw a grid matrix there.
- Count the points in accordance with the pattern through which the needle will pass. Label them.
- Show the guides along which the fabric will be pulled together (preferably with arrows as on a paper diagram).
- Proceed directly to the formation of folds, pulling the thread and securing it in the right places in accordance with the scheme.
- When all the folds are completed, you can use the resulting part to make a pillow.
By such a simple technology, work is always done. In each particular pattern, the direction of movement of the needle and the place of fastening of the thread are different.
So, you saw how to make great accessories for your interior. For work, any scheme can be used. Buffs always look spectacular, even the simplest. The main thing is to do the job exactly according to the marking and carefully fix the threads.