Valentine's Day Pillows

Now that it is officially February, I am excited to share my Valentine's Day pillows that I made for our living room!

A couple of Fridays ago, I was checking out "Feature Yourself Friday" on Fingerprints on the Fridge and I came across this cute post. I loved this simple yet fun way to decorate for V-day. I decided that I would like to try my hand at making some cute pillows. Remember, I am pretty much a novice sewer. I'm sure there is probably a much more sophisticated way to make pillows, but the description below is how I made my little lovelies.

Here is what I used to make my pillows:

1) 1/2 yard red and white gingham fabric ($3.99/yd)

2) 1/2 yard red with white polka dots ($3.99/yd)

3) quarter yard square ($1.29)


Apparently I forgot to take a picture of the gingham. Sorry!

I started by cutting and sewing the fabric into pillow shapes, leaving a small opening to put in the stuffing. I ended up making four pillows, two out of the gingham and two out of the polka dots.

I typed up "love" on the computer using a neat, simple font in all lower case letters. I printed it, and then I cut the letters out and traced them onto the white fabric. Once the letters were traced on the fabric, I cut them out and used craft glue to glue them on the pillow shape.


After the letters were on, I started stuffing the pillows through that opening that I left. I used poly-fill pillow stuffing.


Next, I used a needle and thread to stitch up the opening.

Now, I have four lovely pillows for our front room and they look so cute in our dark colored chairs!