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DIY Envelope Pillow Cover Tutorial

This DIY envelope pillow cover tutorial is the easiest way to make a beautiful pillow cover.

I’m teaming up today with some popular bloggers (Shauna from Satori Living, Jennifer from City Farmhouse and Becky from Infarrantly Creative) to show how we took two yards of fabric from Spoonflower and created a project from it.

We each didn’t know what each other was making so it’s been fun to see what the others came up with!

For Valentine’s Day I made an envelope pillow cover and I’ve been wanting to do another one to tweak my tutorial a bit. Today I’ll show you how I mastered it! If I can, so can you 😉

DIY envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

 This is the beautiful ikat blue fabric I picked from Spoonflower.

Did you know you can design your own fabric with Spoonflower? Amazing! You should definitely check them out.

I’m in LOVE with this fabric! I want to order more and make more of these pillows for my bonus room.

Spoonflower fabric / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

Instructions:

To make an envelope pillow cover for an 18×18 pillow form:

  1. Wash and dry your fabric (if it’s a natural fibre fabric) so it doesn’t shrink later on.
  2. You’ll need to cut two pieces of fabric, cut piece A 18×18 inches.
  3. Cut piece B 18×26 inches.
  4. Then cut piece B in half.
  5. Hem one side of each B piece (the longest side). To hem, fold over 1/2 inch and iron.

Hem / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

 6. Then fold over 1/2 inch again and iron. Sew into place.

How to hem / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

 Now you’ll have two pieces that look like this.

DIY / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

7. Lay one B piece over piece A with fronts facing each other. Pin and sew together.

Sew / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

8. Now lay the last piece over, pin and sew together. You’ll notice it will overlap the first piece by about 5 inches. That’s what you want!

Sew / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

9. This is what it will look like inside out when you’re all done. Iron it, turn it inside out and stuff your pillow form inside.

DIY / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

And here is the finished product!

Ikat fabric / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

 You can see the envelope enclosure in the photo below. I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out!

Ikat blue fabric / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com
Blue ikat fabric / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

Spoonflower / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com
Spoonflower fabric / Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

Envelope pillow cover tutorial via somuchbetterwithage.com

 Isn’t she lovely?

Why not make your own envelope pillow cover?

 Now be sure to check out what my co-hosts did with their two yards of fabric from Spoonflower!

Spoonflower Fabric Projects Collage

From left to right:

Envelope Pillow by Jamie at So Much Better With Age
Nook Makeover by Jennifer of City Farmhouse
Fabric Covered Lampshade by Beckie of Infarrantly Creative
DIY Roman Shade by Shauna of Satori Design for Living

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40 Comments

  1. Really great fabric! I’d love for you to link it up this week to the Be. You. Tiful Link party going live on Thursday at 6pm PST. I’ve been stalking your blog for awhile now! In a non creepy way, I promise. I’d love to team up and work on some projects together if you are interested:) Pinning this Pillow 🙂

  2. Hi, I am a novice at sewing so I have a question about the envelope cover. When you say cut piece B in half, which side? The long or short?
    Also, my pillow is 23 X 23 so do I add 8″ to piece B for the long side?
    Thanks

    1. HI Cindy,
      Sorry for the confusion. If piece B is lying down with 18″ at the top (width) and 26″ at the sides (length or height), you would cut it in half horizontally right in the middle. And yes you’d add 8″ to the B piece. Essentially that’s the side that will be overlapping to make the opening in the pillow.
      Good luck!
      Hugs, Jamie

  3. Thanks for this great tutorial … just what I was looking for! I am a little confused though … if you are cutting the fabric 18″, and then sewing seams, how can it fit an 18″ pillow? Is it a typo, or have I just not had enough coffee this morning? 🙂

    1. Hi Trish!
      I had to doublecheck this too 😉 You want it the same size so the pillow will squish into the pillow cover or else there’s too much space and it doesn’t push up. I found this to make a nice fluffy pillow.
      Hugs, Jamie

  4. I’m confused. It says cut the 18×24 piece in half, but then in the instructions it says to use the larger piece??? What am I missing?

    1. Hi Bethany,
      Thanks for pointing this out! When I did a similar tutorial for my book, I remembered this blog tutorial and quickly changed one part of it. I forgot to change the part in the middle of the post where it says larger piece in brackets. It used to say cut that piece in two-thirds which was kinda confusing so I changed it to half. I forgot to change it further down 😉
      Hugs, Jamie

      1. Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and cut it in half and it came out great! Such a quick, easy project and now my best friend’s baby quilt has a matching pillow. Thanks for this tutorial!

  5. Nice tutorial. I couldn’t remember how much to over lap the back. Funny thing is I am using one of my Spoonflower designs for the front.

  6. Hi
    When you cut piece B in half does each piece become 18×13 or 9×26? Can you email me back?
    Thanks… beautiful pillow!
    Ro

  7. I love your fabric. I make envelope pillow covers, but I cut one rectangular length. Hem the short ends; fold right sides together to match the size of the pillow overlapping the short ends, and then just sew up the sides. Done.

  8. I just made two of your envelope pillows! Easy to follow instructions!
    I would like to make matching lumbar pillows 13 x 20! What size would I need to cut my fabric, please?

  9. I have made several of these pillows. I always add a sentiment note on the inside of one of the backs. Something simple like:
    Made especially for
    Their name
    Christmas, 2021
    My name

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