Christmas is coming and I decided to start early this year because I have little one due around Thanksgiving and we won't be in our right minds to decorate for Christmas. We really wanted to make sure our son still enjoyed Christmas. I decided to start with my couch and recovering the pillows with festive burlap and felt! I made a burlap and felt reindeer Christmas pillow.
The first thing I did was cut out the reindeer head on vinyl using my silhouette cutting machine, which is where I also got the reindeer image.
I went and purchased gray felt at Joann's. I tried my best to center the image on the felt.
I traced an outline of the reindeer with sewing chalk.
I cut the traced line. It very easy to cut felt I found out, I usually have to fight with my fabric when I cut it. I can't seen to be able to cut a straight line, hehe.
Now you have a pretty reindeer silhouette. I added HoHo red burlap also found at Joann's. I added a square of Christmas burlap panel to the back of the felt and sew it on.
I decided to continue using the red HoHo burlap on the back making every other panel different.
Sew everything together and now you have your very one reindeer felt and burlap pillow for the holiday season.
I added a little pompom to the nose to make it a little more special for my son, the white nose reindeer. I also got snowflake burlap which is lovely and made two pillows out of it. I added fleece on the back because the hubby does not like burlap so we compromised. Now when he sits on the couch he can turn them over and be comfy and I can have the style when company comes over. The best of two worlds.
Happy Holiday's
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