Making A Personalized Linen Baby Pillow For Our Littlest Glittle

Today we’re making a Personalized Linen Baby Pillow for our littlest glittle because organic fabrics not only make the cutest vintage style accessories, they are also comfortably safe for your family.

 

As we shared in this post, and this one, there are real advantages to using organic fabrics for your family’s clothing and home linens.

And because we are about to go get a few cuddles with our littlest glittle (haven’t seen her since Easter) we’re all about getting the things around to stuff our suitcases.

I have this habit of piling gifts on our spare bed a few weeks ahead of a visit to our little-farm-on-the-river-family.

I collect things that two little boys, a sweet daughter-in-law, the best ever country son, and now…

now…

a chubby baby girl growing too fast without us…

might need.

 

 

We have an exciting new product to try

that you’ll likely be seeing on a few posts besides this one.

Have you heard about Artiqo Paint Pens?

I know, I hadn’t either.

But one day someone sent me an email asking if I wanted to try the paint pens

in exchange for sharing the experience on the blog.

And since it’s a well known fact that I can’t resist trying new art things

I agreed.

 

 

 

So to start with, we’ll make this

Personalized Linen Baby Pillow

to test the Artiqo Paint Pens. Because the description says they paint on anything:

glass, metal, paper and more, this time, we’ll try fabric.

Let’s get ready.

 

Supplies:

• Artiqo Paint Pens*
• linen pillow cover*
• heavy backing board; I’m using the back cover of a watercolor paper pad, which is the equivalent of 1/8″ chipboard
• computer design program, such as PhotoShop or Microsoft Publisher
• printer*, printer paper, graphite tracing paper*, tape, pencil, measuring tape, scissors

 

 

 

 

Personalized Pillow Design Directions:

1. Fire up your favorite computer design program. I’m using Microsoft Publisher.
2. Choose the fonts you wish to use. I want to combine a script font with a sans serif font.
3. You need a real-size pattern, so measure the front of the pillow you plan to personalize. Ours is 12″ x 16″ so I’m creating a page that size in Publisher.
4. I have a printer that accommodates 11″ wide paper, so I’m taping printer paper into a banner to print out the pattern. If your printer is a regular 8.5″ width, you will need to flip the font sideways, as I’ll show you in the second image.
5. Now you will make a “tracing sandwich” as described in this post, with the pillow cover as the bottom of the sandwich.
6. Transfer the outline of the fonts to the pillow front. Use just enough pressure on the pencil to get a light outline to follow with the paint pens.

 

 

Okay. That’s it for today on making our

Personalized Linen Pillow Cover

Now we’ll go practice with the new, amazing pens

and when we’re ready to commit to the pillow cover,

we’ll report the results. Hopefully next week. We’ll give you a link here when we get the post done.

So meanwhile, please post this to your Pinterest board

(and please follow our Linen Baby board on Pinterest).