Supplies! Photographed so arty!
I’m a sucker for a kid that realizes his favorite sleeping t-shirts don’t fit but he still wants to hang onto them with vigor. “Put them in my memories box!” he says, with all the conviction as if I should save worn out sleep shirts next to his first blond haircut curls with the same importance.
I know, future hoarder in the making.
I offered to make him a few pillows out of his best loved shirts. Keep three, make them useful, and get rid of several. Cleverness oozes.
From t-shirt to pillow:
Step One: Select a t-shirt that has meaning (or 3). Either for sentimental value or been-washed-1000x-is-so-soft value.
Step Two: Think size. I left one t-shirt shaped. For the small one, I decided to use a pillow form from a sewing/fabric store that I bough on sale for a couple of bucks. For the 3rd, I cut the logo out of it and made a small round one.
It is ironic that he selected one that said Born to Be Wild. Because if you met him you would think, yes, he was.
Step Three: Cut to the shape you want and do not be OCD about it. It’s a pillow. Out of a t-shirt. Get over being perfect. If you’re using a form, cut about 1/2 to 1 inch added to pillow form size.
Step Four: V.I.S., Very Important Step is flipping the sides so the image/outside panels face each other on the inside for sewing. Sew edge. Use a few pins to keep the edges together while you sew three edges for the pillow form, nearly all the way around for a stuffing stuffed pillow.
Again, so arty.
Step Five: Stuff it with filler (also from sewing/fabric store) or pillow form. If using a pill form, you’ll want to cut about an extra 1/2 to one inch to allow for seam. Turn inside out and stuff.
See the edge? Put some pins in it to hold.
Step Five: Thread a needle and around the open edge and over and through, sew the edges. Do not worry about neatness. Your kid, or lover, does not care what the edge looks like. Remember, soon, they’ll end up in the trash anyway.
Walla! T-shirt pillows!
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Oh, how I wish that I was all Martha-Stewarty and could sew! What a fun idea! GO, YOU!
Twitter Name: erinmargolin
That is a neato idea. I can think of a couple people I could do that for, for Christmas. Thank you for sharing this. I love doing crafty fun stuff. :)
Twitter Name: 31_Amber_31
Favorite T’s also make perfect tote bags. Cut off the arms near the arm hole. Cut a scoop neck. Stitch up the bottom. Makes a great bag for library books, grocery tote, beach bag — whatever. Throw it in the wash as needed. Lots of instructions online. Look up T-Shirt Tote.
Love!! Good for kids who are attached to old clothes…maybe I’ll graduate from no-sew fleece blankets :).
Twitter Name: momadabsurdum