There are many ways to make decorative pillows at home. If you have a plain pillow cover you can use your embroidery skill to do some simple embroidery in that pillow cover and this would give a very nice look to your pillow. Another way to decorate a pillow is to stitch some frills along the border of the pillow cover. This border can be of any color and design. Patterns like flowers would give a look that is more feminine. Instead of making the decorative pillow cover alone, you can also make the pillow itself. For this you might need cushion to be used for the pillow, the fabric that is going to be used as a cover for that pillow and a matching thread to stitch the pillow. There are many websites that give you instructions on the different methods of creating your decorative pillows. It is left to the imagination of the creator to create such designs and even different shapes of pillows.