Valentine’s Pillows

I am knee-deep in New Year’s Eve party preparations, and yet I totally have Valentine’s Day on the brain.  Every spare minute I’ve had for the past two days has been spent making heart-themed pillows for the bench in our upstairs hallway.

It all started while going through Little Cutie’s closet and discovering two sweaters that were favorites of mine are officially way too small {I’m putting in my formal request here and now that she please slow down her constant growth in the new year}.  So I turned them into little throw pillows.  Now I definitely feel like I got my money’s worth since both Cuties wore these for two years each, and the black and white striped one was a couple of dollars on the clearance rack at Gymboree and the hot pink one was from the Lilly Pulitzer warehouse sale for $15!

After I made those, Big Cutie and I sorted through my large ribbon scrap jar and pulled out all the red and pink pieces.  We played around with them for a bit and came up with this design and I simply sewed them down {I realize that one wide red ribbon is a bit wonky, but I’m going to try and stop thinking about it ever 2.3 seconds and deal}.  I did follow an online tutorial and made my first ever envelope flap pillow cover so I can store this easily and use the insert for other occasions {the fact that I just figured this out now at almost 40 should tell you what a novice sewer I truly am!}.

Since I was in a “using up” kind of mood, I remembered that my last large bag of rhinestones came with a ridiculously high number of red ones so I came up with the idea to make a heart out of different colored and sized rhinestones.  First, I just cut a heart out of a piece of cardstock and pinned it to my piece of felt.

Then I just glue gunned rhinestones inside the heart template until it was filled in and then sewed up the cover.

And the last pillow was just a basic applique from letters I printed off my laptop.  With a crooked ‘e.’ WAAAAHH. I carefully pinned each letter to the fabric and sewed nice and slowly, however inbetween each letter, I kept running back and forth to the kitchen where Cute Husband and The Cuties were making donuts.  Somewhere between all that careful pinning and donut sampling the ‘e’ slipped I guess.  But I’m leaving it.  It’s not something I’m selling in my shop and it’s not a gift for someone else.  It’s a lousy Valentine’s Day decoration and it’s just going to have to be good enough {doesn’t that sound like a Saturday Night Live Stuart Smalley segment?}.

And finally, here’s all of them together as a happy little family.  Fun fact:  the puppy keeps stealing the sweater pillows.  She must still smell Little Cutie on them.

 

 

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