Pillow Talk

One of my friends lost her father earlier this year. Actually, a lot of my friends have lost a parent this year. This has been a hard year all the way around. That's one of the reasons it's so important to be kind, to spread smiles, to make the world a better place.

My friend asked how much I would charge to make pillow coverings from some of her dad's old shirts for pillows she would supply. She wants to give the pillows to her daughters for Christmas.

I did not know going into this project the shirts were T-shirts, but I told her I would do it as a Christmas present to her.

Not only did she leave on my doorstep some of the coolest pillow forms I've ever seen, but she also left a box of chocolates!!! I kind of like being paid in chocolate!

These pillow forms are pretty darned thin in their original wraps. Once you open them, they inflate!



I have no T-shirt stabilizer, and as slow as mail is going these days, I didn't want to order any. I also worried I might not have enough fabric to match the shirts once I saw how big the pillow forms inflated (22x22). I never got to meet my friend's dad, so I didn't know he was a big boy. I have plenty of T-shirt fabric to cover the fronts and backs of each pillow!




I cut a pattern from an old flannel sheet by tracing around one of the inflated pillows with a Sharpie then adding seam allowance and girth on all four sides. I had planned to make big hems on both back pieces of each of the pillow coverings for overlapping openings. As I was cutting the back from the first T-shirt, I realized I could use the shirt's hem for one back side, and then I'd need to put a hem in only one back piece instead of two.

Once I got the pattern figured out, the pillows went pretty quickly. I'm very happy to be done and ready to start working on a WIP quilt now! I hadn't touched my sewing machine in weeks, and oh, am I ready to roll now!















Linking up with Alycia Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

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