February 2, 2013

animal silhouettes


My couch was in need of some fun pillows and I'm much to cheap to buy any. I found some scrap fabrics and created these guys!


Cut  two squares of fabric an inch larger than your pillow. My pillow form was about 13 inches, so I cut my squares 14 inches.



Draw or trace an animal silhouette onto a piece of paper.



Cut it out and trace it onto your contrasting fabric.



Cut out the the fabric animal and pin to one square of your pillow fabric.



Top stitch the animal onto your fabric very close to the edges. Work slowly and make sure that your fabric isn't tucking up anywhere and adjust the pins as needed while you sew.



Pin right sides of the squares together all the way around the edge, leaving one side mostly unpinned to leave an opening for your pillow form.



Starting about 2 inches from one corner, completely sew three sides together and all corners, but leaving one side mostly open. Trim the corners and turn the pillow case right side out. Stuff in your pillow form.



Hand stitch the opening closed.



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