Make a Christmas Pillow from an Old Sweater

I knew I was holding on to this old sweater for a reason... I made it into this!

I used the sleeves last winter for this wreath

See the resemblence?

I was starting to think I was nuts for holding onto that cut up sweater... turns out my craft-hoarding paid off!

I was originally inspired by these

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They don't have these pillows anymore (and I wouldn't pay that much for them anyway) so I dug out the old sweater remnant!

This is what it looked like when I pulled it out of my scrap bin.

I cut off all the area above that is shaded gray.

Then I sewed it (inside out) into a square, leaving about 6 inches to stuff the pillow form in.  I stuffed it and sewed up the rest of the seam.

And now for the bow...

I made a long chain by casting 4 sts onto a size 11 knitting needle and knitting a stockinette stitch until it was long enough to wrap around the pillow and tie a bow.

The berries were crocheted from a pattern I found at Petals to Picots.  I made 5 of them and stitched them onto the pillow.  Easy peasy!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Jamie

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Spiderman Pillow Tutorial

I mentioned a while back that I was going to be updating my son's room for his 4th birthday.  This is a part of the Spiderman makeover

Here's what you'll need if you want to make your own:

• red fleece
• white fabric
• black thread
• stuffing for pillow

I started with this

I bought it on a whim because it was so cheap... I knew I wouldn't be using it as a fleece blanket, but I saw it as a great fabric for some future project.  I'm so glad I did!

Measured

I used the bottom of this pot for the chin and the top for the head.

Cut (2 pieces)

Marked the wrong sides

Drew some webby lines and where the eyes would go with chalk

and zigzag stitched them

I took some of the old canvas from the slipcover and made some eyes

then I used fusible interfacing to attach them and zigzag stitched around the edges.

I put the fabric pieces right sides together and sewed it up (leaving an opening to stuff).  You can see that the front side with all the zigzag stitches shrunk pretty significantly, but it still worked out just fine.

Then I had this!

I stuffed the pillow and stitched it closed.

Voila!  He LOVED it.  I have to admit, the handmade gifts don't always go over that well with my crowd; the kids would usually prefer some colorful piece of plastic.  But this was his favorite gift I think.

And here is a detail pic

There are many more room-transformation posts to come so stay tuned!  Thanks so much for visiting.

Blessings,

Jamie
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