I love pillows. But pillows are expensive. Now that I sew I just see a pillow somewhere and make it myself instead of spending $40 on a pillow case. But I still needed the pillow forms. I bought those online for about $4 - $8 each. Not exactly cheap and not always available in the size I needed.
So I decided to make them myself as well! I bought polyester fiber fill bags from the Arts and Crafts store in Stuttgart. I paid about $6 per bag. If they had any (and they rarely did!) I needed to buy them by the box with 6 bags per box. Those bags wouldn't last very long! I would end up paying about $3 - $5 per pillow form in the size I wanted.
But I knew I could do better! One day I had an epiphany as I was buying some pillows for our guest bedroom. Why not cut those open and use the fill for my pillow forms? Yup, that's exactly what I did!
I bought one cheap pillow for $3. I cut it open and made 2 custom size pillow forms out of it. This means that I end up paying $1.50 for one pillow form. I don't think I can get that any cheaper :-)
Take care,
Me
