Color Fade Chevron Pillow

Our office sofa was already bright red, but I figured it could use some more color on a new pillow. So with a little bit of work and some fabric paint, this chevron pillow was born. Add to that a color fade with 5 shades. Why not?

These pillows are made the same way as the Drop Cloth Pillows I also made. Start with a washed and ironed drop cloth and cut out a 19" x 37" rectangle. Be careful to make sure it's an even rectangle. I'm not super familiar with cutting fabric and this stuff just moves all over the place.

Cut out and apply a large piece of shelf liner that can cover the fabric. Or at least most of it like here.

I made a wide chevron pattern and printed it across two pieces of paper. I trimmed the joining edges and taped them together to get the full size.

After that I cut one negative of the stencil, making sure to save three legs on the bottom. These help with aligning all of the successive chevrons.

Here you can see the stencil in action. I drew the outline of the stencil once, then moved it up so that the legs were on the previous lines. Mark, move, repeat.

The darkest shade on the pillow is the regular burgundy fabric paint color. The other 4 colors were creating with different mixes of the burgundy along with white fabric paint.

After letting the paint dry, fold the fabric in half with the paint on the inside and sew up the edges with a sewing machine. You can sew the open side from each edge a little bit as well.

With that done, flip it inside out and stuff the pillow insert inside it.

I finished the pillow up with a simple whipstitch. Nothing fancy.

Toss the pillow on the couch. I find it's helpful to lean on it with a pencil and a pad of paper to start sketching out the next idea.