Easy Remote Control Pillow #CraftyDestash
Last Updated on August 2, 2017 by lydiaf1963
We have a smart TV, and a DVD player, and a cable box. They all have a remote. Sometimes keeping them all handy can be a challenge. This easy remote control pillow is a great way to keep the couch from eating your remotes and use up your stash of fabrics.
To make this project you’ll need:
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- a square pillow form…between 14 and 16 inches
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- 3 fat quarters trimmed one inch wider than the form
- heat erasable fabric marker
- thread
- pins or clips
- scissors or rotary cutter and mat
- basic sewing machine
The inspiration for this pillow came from a pin that led to I Heart Organizing and the Monthly Crafty Destash Challenge. The object of the challenge is to use materials you already have on hand, allowing $10 for supplies like glue sticks, etc. If you’re a crafter, you have a stash, but even if you don’t this project is pretty inexpensive, especially if you recycle a pillow form like I did. The pillow is from a bed set and would never have been used otherwise.
Here’s how to make the pillow:
Wash and iron the fabric, then trim the pieces to one inch larger than the pillow form. For example, my pillow was 16 inches square, so I cut three 17 inch squares of fabric. This allows for a 1/2″ seam allowance.
Choose one piece to be the pockets. Fold it in half and press it. Then top stitch 1/8″ from the fold.
Next, lay another square face up and position the folded piece on top. Use pins or clips to hold the fabrics together. Then, use your remotes to determine the size of your pockets and mark the sewing lines using the heat erasable fabric marker. Top stitch the pockets, back stitching at the beginning to secure the pocket at the top.
Arrange the remaining piece over the piece with the pockets (right sides facing) and clip together. Leave a large opening at the top and sew around the remaining three sides, using a 1/2″ seam allowance. Back stitch at the beginning and end to help prevent tears when inserting the pillow form.
Clip the corners and turn the pillow right side out. Press one more time.
Carefully insert the pillow form and hand stitch the opening closed.
Train your family to return to remotes to the pockets and you’ll never lose them again!
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What a great idea. I hate having the remotes all over and in plain sight. With this it keeps everything nice and neat.
Thanks! My son seems to like it…whether he’ll use it is another story!
I could use one of these at my house! Thanks for sharing!
I have tried a box on the coffee table. The remotes would end up *next* to it, not in it, hahaha.
LOVE this idea – we, too, have remotes everywhere. How nice to have them all in one decorative place!
I think it would make a nice quilt as you go project for someone adventurous 🙂
This is so cool! I would love one! Then I could stop blaming my son for losing the remotes!!
All I know is, I rarely have the remote, so it can’t possibly be me who’s losing them! 🙂
I’m seriously in love with this idea. I have tons of fabric and I’m totally going to make one so I don’t have to dig in the sofas for remotes anymore.
I’d love to see what you come up with 🙂
Very clever use of crafty stash! If I hadn’t just made a remote control storage box, I’d be all over this!! I love the fabrics too!
Thanks! I bought them last year when I found them on sale and hadn’t had a chance to use them 🙂
Such a cool idea!!
Thanks! So far, it’s working well 🙂
Such a cute pillow and it does double duty love it. I’m always losing a remote to my couch.
It’s aggravating when that happens, isn’t it?
We so need one of these in our house! The other day I found the remote in the fridge!! Love the fabric that you used and will be surely adding this to my to do list!
I often find the remote in the kitchen. I suppose the fridge will happen one day, hahaha.
I need one of these! I blame my kids for losing the remote all the time, unfortunately, most of the time I’m sitting on it and don’t even realize it! I’d love for you to share this at #HomeMattersParty linkup, you can find it starting every Friday on my blog, http://www.domesticdeadline.com
Man, if we had one of these, we may not loose our remotes! Especially the tiny Apple TV remote, ugh. I could see my teenagers loving this too for their rooms. Thanks for sharing!