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What you need to make a foam pillow

To make a foam pillow, you will need:

Tools - sharp scissors for cutting and trimming threads, pins for attaching the pattern and workpiece parts, a needle. If you have a sewing machine, the best solution would be to sew with it. When sewing by hand, special attention must be paid to the strength of the seams.
Materials - threads, foam rubber for stuffing, fabric for covers and decorative pillowcases, thick paper for patterns.

You will need a sewing machine, thread and other materials and tools.
Important! It is not recommended to use too thick threads, as this will make the seams rough and too noticeable. And the use of thick threads will not affect the strength of the seam.

There is no need to use threads that are too thick.

The choice of fabric directly depends on the application of the item. If you plan to use it for practical purposes - sitting, lying down, then the fabric should be chosen that is durable and abrasion-resistant. Any material that is used for upholstery will do.

For pillows that will be used for lying down, use a durable fabric.

For decorative items there is more freedom in choice. You can sew decorative pillows from any suitable material that can hold its shape for a long time and matches the chosen design.

For decorative pillows, you can use any beautiful material.

Ideas and solutions

Plastic buckets

Crafts for the garden from mayonnaise buckets are, first of all, various pots for flowers and seedlings. What is missing from a bucket to a full-fledged pot? Of course, the original appearance.

Each is decorated with regular colored paper. For gluing, you can use office glue; The decor is applied to the bucket from below.

How to protect paper from water when watering? Transparent water-based acrylic varnish. The first layer is applied in a thin layer, so that the paper does not swell; After drying, the second layer can be applied more boldly.

Ice cream sticks were used for decoration. A woolen thread wound in two rings acted as improvised hoops for holding the sticks together. To prevent it from moving, the surface of the sticks is coated with any transparent glue.

In this case, the basis of the decor is a hemp rope wound with glue. It is also used for laying transverse turns; While the glue is drying, they can be secured with a pin. Ladybugs were mercilessly bitten off from hairpins bought at the nearest jewelry store.

Gramophone records

Do you have a dozen old records lying around in your attic closet? Let me guess - the record player for them was sent with honors to an honorable and well-deserved retirement twenty years ago? We will find a use for them.

So, what crafts from records for the garden or garden house can be made with minimal time?

It is made by simply bending a record on the corner of a table or on a block. The plate is first heated to 100-120 degrees using a hair dryer, over a gas stove or near a stove.

If you heat the plate and give it an arbitrary shape, it will turn out to be an unusual watch dial, vividly reminiscent of the painting “The Persistence of Memory” by Dali. The dial is attached to the body of the wall clock with the glass removed using any universal glue along the edges of the case. The hands are removed from the axis before installing the dial and put back on it after the glue has dried.

CDs

Creative crafts from disks for the garden and home do not have to be used in their original form. Thanks to a specific method of recording and reading information, a CD has a beautiful and unusual surface. Its fragments can be used for mosaic decoration of small household items.

Kinder Surprise

A variety of crafts made from Kinder Surprise eggs for the garden usually serve as toys for younger family members. They are painted, covered with Easter stickers, turned into artificial flowers or, as in the photo below, into a multi-colored caterpillar.

The photo shows a caterpillar from Kinder Surprises.

Disposable spoons

Do you not like washing dishes and buy disposable sets on your way to the country? Let's look at crafts made from plastic spoons for the garden and country kitchen.

Hint: to glue PVC products, you can use cyanoacrylate-based adhesives (Superglue, 910, 791, 502, and so on). It is necessary to glue only with good ventilation, preferably in the open air. The instructions are related to the high toxicity of the glue.

Styrofoam

Typical garden crafts made from foam plastic are a variety of three-dimensional figures. The material is voluminous, light and quite easy to process; In addition, thanks to its porous structure, putties and paints adhere well to it.

There are a few things that are helpful to know about foam.

It varies in density. Polystyrene foam grades PSB-S 35 and 50 are suitable for crafts.

Reference: packaging foam from household appliances usually has a density of 35 kg/m3.

It can be easily cut with a utility knife.
For gluing and puttying the surface, you can use acrylic putty, for painting - acrylic water-soluble paints.

Foam rubber

Foam crafts for the garden are made in the same way as foam plastic ones: they are cut out with a stationery knife and painted with acrylate paints. Foam rubber is afraid of ultraviolet radiation and becomes fragile in the light, so it is better to keep the soft toy in the shade.

Stumps, logs, snags

Unlike those listed above, crafts made from driftwood for the garden can have not only beauty, but also functionality.

Baba's favorite swing is Yaga.

To protect wood from dampness, you can use impregnation with drying oil or Aquatex (an antiseptic with a water-repellent effect).

Vine, twigs

All kinds of wicker crafts for the garden require certain weaving skills. The vine is pre-soaked in a barrel or trough; After drying, the product you have woven becomes stiff. The soaking time depends on the cross-section of the rods:

Warm water will speed up the soaking of the wood, but may cause it to change color due to leaching of tannins.

Papier mache

For obvious reasons, papier-mâché crafts are not suitable for the garden: the paper product is too hygroscopic. But decorating a country house with them is a great idea.

The simplest way to form complex shapes looks like this:

Pieces of soaked paper are laid out on the template.
After the surface of the template is hidden under a continuous layer, subsequent layers are glued onto PVA or starch paste.

After the workpiece has dried, you can paint the surface with water-dispersion acrylic paints that are already familiar to us.

Advantages and disadvantages of a homemade pillow

A hand-sewn pillow has a number of obvious advantages. Firstly, there is complete freedom in choosing the shape and decoration. You can independently select the height, degree of density and elasticity, and other indicators necessary for maximum comfortable use.

A handmade pillow can be made of any shape and size.

Secondly, things made with your own hands give the home comfort and warmth. And the proper use of hand-made items in the interior will help create the necessary accents and complement the chosen style of the room. Homemade pillows are perfect for Provence or country styles.

Homemade pillows fit perfectly into Provence and country styles.

The disadvantages of homemade sofa cushions include:

the possibility of fabric abrasion and filling coming out due to incorrectly selected materials or weak seams;
rapid loss of shape - if low-quality filler was used, or the pillow was not stuffed enough.

However, if you follow the sewing rules, these shortcomings can be easily avoided, and the item will please the eye for a long time.

If you choose low-quality material, the pillow will quickly wear out and lose its shape.

Advantages of crafts from scrap materials

Before we proceed directly to making our crafts, think about what advantages they have.

A fun time for the whole family. It is not without reason that they say that a common cause unites people. That’s how it is here, having some kind of idea, you can all implement it together, and at the same time get even closer.
Development of imagination and creative ideas. Undoubtedly, when you come up with or design something, creative thinking begins to work, which brings a lot of pleasure and useful time.

Saving on materials, because we can use things that we already have, rather than buying new ones. It could be:
Tree.
Styrofoam.
Old tires.
Barrels.
Plastic bottles.
Pebbles.

This is not the entire list and it can be continued for a very long time. The main thing is to have an idea, and the materials for its implementation will definitely be found.

DIY crafts will make you proud of your work, and you can show them off to your friends.

Rules for sewing a cushion for a sofa

When planning to sew your own cushion or cushion for a sofa, you need to remember a number of simple rules:

Use a pattern to avoid wastage of fabric or other errors in calculations when cutting. If, if you have experience in sewing, a simple quadrangular “dumka” can be sewn by eye, then when sewing pads of complex shapes (letters, hearts), a pattern is required.
In order for the pillow to keep its shape for as long as possible, it is advisable to sew an inner cover - a pillowcase or filling. This rule is especially true for foam pillows, since this material easily gets knocked down and clumps.
Use only high-quality materials - strong, reliable threads, soft and non-clumping foam, fabric that can hold its shape.

The pillow should be sewn according to certain rules.
Note! There are many types of foam rubber available, which vary in degree of softness. In your work, it is advisable to use material marked “supersoft” or “soft”. As a rule, such filler is available in craft stores.

It is better to use soft filler.

Garden figurines from scrap materials

Well, here you can have a blast, because there are no limits to your imagination. You can make entire sketches on the theme of your favorite animals or cartoon characters.

To implement the idea we will need one of the materials. It could be plaster, foam, clay, or something like that. We choose our favorite animal and begin to sculpt it from the material. When the character is ready, you can paint it and secure it with clear varnish.

Such figures actually cost very well in specialized stores. And this way we will not only save money, but also get real pleasure from work. The work may seem quite complicated, but when you take on it, believe that everything is far from what it seems at first glance.

How to make a foam pillow with your own hands?

The step-by-step process of sewing a pillow is as follows:

Preparing a pattern - you can make it yourself or use ready-made patterns from the Internet. Be sure to leave a seam allowance of at least 1.5 cm.
Cut out the fabric for the cover and decorative pillowcase. The cutting process directly depends on the shape of the product. For example, for a roller, you should separately cut out a large flap for the main part and 2 small ones for the end parts. For a round pillow, two large circles of fabric with seam allowances are enough. If you plan to sew a circle consisting of segments, you need to cut out the required number of fabric triangles, which will then be sewn together.
Directly sewing a cover, or, if it is not used, immediately a decorative pillowcase. To prevent the filler from coming out, the seams must be strong and reliable.
Stuffing – the comfort of using the pillow depends on this stage. To prevent the foam from clumping inside, it is laid gradually, starting from the bottom. If sheet foam rubber is used, you need to fold the sheet 3 or 4 times and cut the blank to the shape of the future pad. After stuffing, it is recommended to check how comfortable it is on the pillow and remove excess.

Note! There is also an adhesive method for attaching foam rubber to a pillowcase. With this method, sheet foam rubber is laid directly on the cut fabric and secured in the middle with a glue gun. The cover is then sewn together. When using this method, the stuffing will bunch up less, and the item will retain its shape longer.

With the adhesive fastening method, the pillow retains its shape longer.

Crafts from tires for the garden

Recently, it has become very popular to make various crafts from old tires.

In first place among the things that are made from tires:

Ottomans.
Benches.
Tables.
Decoration for the garden or beds.
Swing.
Sandboxes for children and much more.

Basically, they are still used to decorate the design of our dacha, so try to find old tires and make something interesting by following the master classes that you will find below. And also don’t forget to use other available materials for country crafts, combining them with each other - in this case you can create real masterpieces.

More ideas : crafts made from tires and car tires for the garden.

DIY master class “Parrot made from tires”

Agree, it is unlikely that motley colorful parrots will be able to leave anyone without attention and will definitely cheer you up for the whole day!

Progress:

First you need to make a cut on both sides of the tire, leaving a very small strip of the inner circumference. As a result, you should get a small radius of the tire, and divide the large radius in half.
Next you need to make a cut along a small radius on both sides, after which the tire will become the desired shape and you can continue decorative work with it.
Along the edges of our cut we need to make the tail and head of the future parrot. To do this, you need to unravel the tire so that several strips come out, and sharpen them at the end - this will be our tail. We make the parrot's head approximately according to the shape that our imagination draws.
The finishing line will be painting the parrot in different colors. Usually green and yellow or red and blue shades are used. But these are classic options, and your parrot can transform into any color of the rainbow.

Master class “frog princess” made from tires

We already have a colored parrot that can be hung on a tree so that it will please the eye. Now let’s try to decorate not only the “air space”, but also the “earth space”.

Having a few old tires, we can create a beautiful image of a frog sitting or looking out from the lawn.

The work process will not take much time. All you need is a couple of extra hours and a can of green paint.

Progress:

So, having three tires available, we lay out two of them, pressing them tightly against each other. We put the third one on top. As a result, we end up with something like a pedestal, which will serve us as a garden figure and decor.
Next, we fill our tires with earth, which should be in the middle of the wheels.

The base is ready, move on to the toad itself. It is made from twigs, so you need to get two short (thicker) and two long (thin) ones. These will be our paws.

Using a hacksaw, we cut out the additional shape of the legs from the wooden beams and attach them.

All that remains is to design the face. We will need a plastic bottle from which we will cut out eyes and a crown for the toad. All other elements are drawn using paint.

DIY tire flowerbed

Another popular idea is a flower bed made from tires. It’s easy to do, you just need to dig a small hole in which we place our tires. It is better to first paint them in a single color, or make interesting sketches. We plant several flowers in the middle, and do not forget to water them on time. Our flower garden is ready and will delight us for a long time. We also use other available materials, such as wood or bottles, to decorate this flowerbed.

Decor pillows

There are many ideas for original sofa cushion decor. This applies to both the shape of the pillows and the decorative design itself. In addition to the classic quadrangular, the most popular shapes are:

cushion - classic sofa headrest;
a circle consisting of sectors - such a pad can be made in the shape of a flower;
letters – letter pillows are often used as a decorative element in a children’s room;
heart - sewn either from one piece of fabric, cut into two sectors, or from two or more types of fabric of different colors;
other figures are pads in the form of flowers, animals, and other silhouettes.

When sewing, you can use either one type of fabric or combine several different colors or types of material. “Patchwork” pillowcases made from triangles or squares of different colors sewn together look impressive.

Pillows made from pieces of fabric look original.

When choosing decorative elements, you need to take into account the overall design and purpose of the pillow. For example, a bolster that will be used as an armrest or headrest on a sofa should not be overloaded with decor.

In some cases, the pillow should not be overloaded with decor.

Pillows that do not have a practical function can be decorated more boldly by using suitable elements - buttons, decorative appliqués, lace.

If you do not plan to lie on the pillow, it can be decorated with buttons or other voluminous decor.

Wood crafts for the garden

No less creative crafts can be made from ordinary wood. This is a handy material that can be found at any dacha. The first thing that comes to mind is the design of the table and benches. Note that they don't have to be classic. Furniture crafts made from stumps or logs of wood can look quite interesting.

Basic but very useful crafts that can be made from wood include:

Birdhouse.
Swing.
Box for storing materials.
Fence.
Candlestick or flashlight.

It is clear that there are a lot of ideas for crafts from scrap materials for the garden, the main thing is to start and do it!

Design options for foam pillows in the photo

Photos of crafts from scrap materials for the garden

In conclusion, we can say that from such simple materials as a bottle, wood or old tires, you can make real works of art. The main thing is that this does not require a lot of money, only our imagination and a couple of unnecessary things. Let's see a photo of what else can be made for a dacha from various scrap materials - you can use not only the most popular ones, but also polystyrene foam, metal, old dishes, shoes and clothes, unnecessary furniture, records and CDs and other unnecessary things.

Why is this necessary?

Indeed, if you need a new napkin holder or a napkin holder for your home, why not just buy it? Why waste time and effort on making an item that is likely to be inferior in functionality to a factory product?

There are several motives.

Savings are not always decisive, but they are the most obvious. A significant part of Russian summer residents are pensioners; The price of many decorative items looks quite impressive compared to the size of the pension.
After many years of general shortages among people who found it at a conscious age, the idea of throwing away an item that is suitable for at least something causes unconscious rejection. But transforming it with your own hands into something useful, on the contrary, fills the owner with enthusiasm.

By the way: the pleasure of creativity, of independently creating something beautiful and functional, should not be forgotten either.

Finally, some products simply cannot be found for sale. Either because they are not in demand, or simply because no one has thought of them yet.

We will devote this material to ideas that are unpopular among industrialists.

What type of foam should I use for a mattress?

The qualitative properties of the material have changed recently; various additives are added to the composition, they affect the density and elasticity. Today, polyurethane foam is used to make most products.

Foam rubber and polyurethane foam are practically two varieties of the same material, which is a microcellular derivative of plastic