No-Sew Knot Pillow Cover (Tutorial)

When my husband and I got together, he had these hideous, man cave worthy, Elvis blue couches. When I say man cave worthy, I mean the huge reclining set that you literally get lost in and have to scoot off of. He loved them, but I just couldn't do it. Then we went couch shopping. Now, our living room is pretty small. But, Brice didn't think it was as small as it is apparently, because then we picked up this monstrosity:

Rips included. I obviously didn't win that battle at the store. So after nearly a year and as rips were FINALLY starting to annoy the hubs, I decided to get couches that were not only rip free, but practical in size. My friend decided she wanted to sell her smaller scale couch an love seat set. She told me she would give it to is for $100 and I jumped right on it!

Now, for those of you who don't know me, I am NOT an animal print can and I don't particularly care for red pillows either. So, after unloading the couches at 8pm Wednesday, I went to Hobby Lobby Thursday morning to get fabric to recover the pillows. Now, the couch looks MUCH better (in my opinion) and I'm quite pleased.

Eventually (like, during nap time) there will be cute little sayings on the burlap pillows. But in the meantime, how did I make the knot pillows? Even without a single needle and thread?

Here's how:

Once you pick out what fabric you want to use, get double the size of your pillow. Once you cut the fabric to size and you're ready to begin, place the pillow in the middle of the fabric:

Once it's centered, bring the top of your fabric and the bottom together. If they overlap, that's fine. As long as your pillow is covered.

Once you have folded them to meet/overlap, put a little hot glue in tree to secure the fabric to the pillow. I just put not glue on the edges of the fabric.

After the fabric is secured to the pillow, fold the ends of the fabric as if you're making a paper airplane:

(**Tip: hot glue the touching corners to keep the fabric in place and make it easer to knot.**)

Then fold the edges to meet in the middle:

(**Tip: hot glue just like in the last tip to insure easy knotting.**)

Once this has been done to both sides, it's knot tyin' time!

Make your first tie:

 Then the knot!

Hot glue the tips left over behind the fabric and maybe add a little glue in the knot to make sure it stays........

And tadaa! You've got your very own knot pillow. Congrats! See, it wasn't so hard.