Heather from {House} of A La Mode and our editorial board created this fun pillow tutorial for Valentine’s Day or any day! Enjoy…
This cutie will show your appreciation all year long!
Needed Supplies:
- 7 different saturated color prints
- 3 X 44” – Sashing
- ¾ yard – Backing
- 21” X 21” – Muslin
- 21” X 21” – Batting
- Embroidery Thread & Needle
- Sewing Machine
- Rotary cutter & Mat
- Pins
(20 X 20 inch pillow. Please note pattern is sewn using a ¼ seams.)
Pillow Prep:
I chose non-traditional Valentine colors for those of “us” that don’t do pinks!
1. Cut 4 X 4” squares of the following colors: (Batch A)
- 2 Blue, 2 Yellow, 2 Aqua, 2 Orange, 1 White/with print, 1 Grey, 1 Red, 11 Sashing (Sashing A)
2. Cut 3 ½ X 3 ½” squares and put them aside in the following colors: (Batch B)
- 1 Orange, 1 Aqua, 2 Red, 2 Grey, 2 White/with print, 8 Sashing (Sashing B)
3. Cut (2) – 1 ½” X 44” strips of sashing and put aside.
4. Use a ruler to draw a diagonal guide line on the wrong side of each colored 3 X 3” square of Batch A.
5. Then combine Batch A with Sashing A, right sides together, and pin.
Set Batch A aside.
6. Using the drawn line guide as your center marker, move your needle position to support a ¼ inch seam. Sew your squares together in the chain piecing method.
7. Simply restart the chain method sewing technique on the opposite side of the center drawn guide line…
…And continue sewing your half square triangles together.
8. Snip your connecting threads…
…And cut each square on the drawn guide line.
9. Press each seam open. This should produce a ¼ inch seam on each now half square triangle.
10.Trim each Batch A to 3 ½ inch squares.
11. Next arrange your {X}.
12. Sew your half square triangles together in horizontal strips first and press seams open.
13. Then sew the strips together and press seams open.
14. Grab your (2) – 1 ½” X 44” strips. Starting with the top of your {X} pillow, place right sides together and sew. Then cut the sashing off. Simply turn your {X} pillow top to the bottom and repeat (toss your couple of inches of sashing in your scrap bin). Press seams open.
If you have a little overage on your sashing just snip it off!
15. Repeat step #14. You’ll then have a 20 X 20” inch pillow top.
16. Sandwich your pillow top, batting, & muslin and pin (in that order).
17. Time to quilt your pillow top! I personally love simple quilting, so I chose to hand stitch mine with ½ inch space between each row.
18. Once you’ve finished quilting the top of the pillow. Choose your backing fabric. (I prefer to use home dec weight fabric for my backing to add stability to the form.)
19. Utilizing Julie’s Basic Pillow Instructions for an envelope style, attach your backing.
20. Then presto… one Urban {Hug} pillow for a special Valentine!
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So cute, but have to agree with others. Xs are kisses, Os are hugs.
what a lovely pillow and the tute is great. TFS
Love this pillow will have to make it plus my last name is Urban to match the pillow!!
Love this pillow will have to make one. Very pretty
LOVE~~
add some O pillows and voila, another reason for my children to take all the cushions off the sofa! LOL
Cute patchwork, love the colors.
This is a great pillow tutorial, I will definitely be trying this one!
Great pillow and tutorial. So much you can do with this idea!
Love the colors on that dark background.
Great design!
absolutely modern gorgeous – wonderful colors and hand stitching
This this great! I can’t wait to make one. Thanks!
Thats a lovely pillow, great colours.
what a clever way to piece triangles! thanks!
and i’m with you on the pink.
Came from Heather’s blog, her pillow is amazing! xo
I love bright colors.
Definately gonna try this. Thanks!
Great tutorial. Love the bold colours!
the colors look really great together!
I really like the hand quilting done on this pillow!
now it just needs a kiss!
Thanks for the tutorial! Totally would not have put those colors together but it works.
Very clever way to do the triangles!
Great pillow! I love the colors.
Great tutorial. Love the pillow.
I love the hand stitching…it adds such a nice touch!
Love the color contrast.
Love how the black makes all those colors pop!
I love it: no pinks for me either!
Great tutorial of a great pillow!
beautiful!
Very cheery!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Great- I love the quilting!
Oooh, I love it! I’d probably make a “kiss” pillow to go with it too!
Great tutorial, Heather!
cute pillow.
cute pillow. thanks for the pattern.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Bookmarked this one for sure! Super cute… I’d love to do this with a circle one as a companion. Though I agree with others that an ‘X’ is a kiss!
That’s so cute! It might just have to go to the top of my pillow pattern pile!
I love this one! What a great idea!
lovely pillow and great tutorial. I look forward to making my own.
What a beauty! Maybe if I try this, I’ll gain some skills to be used in making a quilt?
I always wondered about how people got such crisp cornors.
What a fabulous pillow Heather! You are the board queen already!
what is the newsprint fabric? I love it in this project!
Fun design!
AMAZING! Heather you outdid yourself. Love this!
Great tutorial! Thanks.
This is a great tutorial. Now I just need to figure out how to make an ‘O’ in the same fashion and have tic-tac-to pillows!
Thanks for the tutorial, this is a perfect valentine pillow, but not over the top!
Beautiful! I might just have to try this
I’m not in love I thought–but it’s the colors. I love black and can’t abide cheery colors next to it. But I really like the pattern itself. You folks are getting fancy!
I am loving all these pillows. So creative.
Love all these tutorials you are sharing with us this month. Such a lot of pillows to choose from. Thank you.
I love the bright colors.
what an adorable pillow heather!!
You’ve de-mystified triangles for me! Thanks for the tute!
Cute. I love the newspaper print.
Very nice tutotial. Great pillow for using up bits of fabrics, thank you.
Thanks for the tutorial.
great tutorial and i’m hoping my seams turn out as well-matched as this one!!
love all the pictures in the tutorial, makes it much easier.
so fun ~ I absolutely adore this pillow!
OMG! How do you quilters do it? That’s a lot of cutting and piecing together. Amazing!
Isn’t “x” a kiss?
I like this pillow!
This is a really neat pillow design, it’s nice to see it in non-traditional valentine colors.
Another great tutorial to bookmark!
I love the tip on how to make the process more efficient! Thank you for a great tutorial!
Thanks for the tute! And the chance for the giveaway!
how fun!
I love this!!!
It looks great! But I always thought O’s were hugs and X’s were kisses for some reason … My bad!
Jess
Great tutorial – getting bookmarked for sure!
It’s striking!
I like this a lot – thank you
great tutorial. Thank you
Gorgeous! Such a sweet idea
Great tutorial! Thanks. Love this pillow!
Great tutorial, thanks! I have to try this one.
Cool! But shouldn’t it be called Urban {Kiss}?
Or have I been taught wrong? 
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Lovely and so neat and modern, love it!
Very pretty. I’ve been wanting to try sewing some triangles…
Thanks so much for the tutorial! Nice looking pillow, I love the bright colors against the dark background.
Great tutorial!
Nice patchwork!
Love how we can use up scraps with all those squares…to build up a design.
I really like the hand stitching done on this pillow top. It’s such a nice extra touch.
Wow! Absolutely beautiful!
Loving the colour selection!
Okay, that is just TOO CUTE! Man. Welp, just gonna have to add one more to my must-do list…
thanks for the tutoral and i really understand everything!
Looks lovely.