How to Make a Personalized Bee Pillow: Easy Nursery DIY
Want to learn how to make
a Personalized Honey Bee Pillow?
Try this quick-n-easy DIY for elegant, and useful, décor for baby’s nursery.
So handy as a bolster while rocking your little one!
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Personalized Bee Pillow DIY
Supplies:
- 22″ x 14″ piece of fabric, light color solid cotton or muslin. We’re using natural color muslin.
- 2 pieces 14″ x 14″ fabric for the pillow back, may be a print.
- Transfer design: download our printable by filling out the form below this post ⇓
- Fine tip black permanent fabric marker
- 12″ x 20″ bolster pillow insert
- scissors and measuring tape – or – quilt ruler, cutting mat and rotary cutter
- coordinating thread, straight pins or fabric clamps
Directions for the Personalized Bee Pillow Cover
Personalize and Sew the Bee Pillow Cover
Instructions
Personalize the Pillow Cover
- Press the 22" x 14" solid fabric smooth. This is the pillow cover front.
- Tape the printable pattern onto a work surface.
- Position and tape the pillow cover front on top of the pattern.
- Trace the pattern onto the fabric with the black fabric marker.
- Press according to the directions on your specific fabric marker to set the design.
Sew the Pillow Cover
- Press the two 14" x 14" back pillow cover pieces.
- Choose an edge on each piece to be the center back of the pillow. The grain of the fabric pieces should run the same way for front and back.
- Press a double 1/4" hem onto each of these center edges, to the back of fabric.
- Stitch the hems.
- Place pillow front piece on work surface, right side up.
- Place pillow backs on top of front piece, right side down. Hem sides should overlap each other about 6".
- Clamp (pin) all around the outside edges, and sew together with a straight 5/8" seam.
- Snip the corners on an angle, then turn pillow cover.
- Slip the pillow form inside the pillow cover through the overlapped back edges.
- Smooth, fluff, and decorate!
Direction Diagrams
The Finished Pillow
Isn’t this fun?
I hope you love it as much as we do.
I wish we had a nursery to demo the pillow for you, but, sorry!
This is the best we could do…
How to Download the Transfer Pattern
We’ll share our Honey Bee Personalized Pillow Cover transfer design with you,
completely FREE!
Fill in this form, we’ll design your choice of letter transfer design,
and email it back to you. Just download and print it on letter size paper,
then tape the two sheets together to form the complete pattern.
Tape at the marks to have an uninterrupted pattern.
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