Home Sweet Home

My brother and his sweet girlfriend moved into their first house this past fall.  I wanted to make them HOME pillow and after a few different designs I ended up with this:

I was so excited to wrap it, that I forgot to take a picture!  I had to snap this pic after they opened on Christmas...needless to say, the lighting conditions were less than perfect ;)

For the letters and heart, I used the Silhouette.  I don't often plan my creative endeavors in advance, which means I didn't order the fabric fusing from Silhouette.  Instead, I tried the regular red package Heat N Bond and it worked perfectly.


As you can see, I used a different fabric for each letter, but all of them were cotton.  To start, cut your piece of fabric and Heat N Bond to size.  I cut the fabric slightly larger than the Heat n Bond so that the glue wouldn't seep out onto my ironing board during the next step:

Follow the instructions on the package to fuse the Heat N Bond to your fabric.  For this one, it was just a matter of ironing the right side of the Heat n Bond to the wrong side of my fabric:

Then it was time to cut!  I used a new blade and change the cutting settings to double cut:

When I first took the carrier off of the Silhouette, I couldn't even see where the cut was - I was amazed with out how sharp and clean the letters turned out:

Once all the letters were cut (5 minutes later), it was time to peel the backing and iron the letters right to my pillow fabric (I used an unbleached muslin)

Then zig zaged around each letter (and heart) with cream thread and I sewed a simple envelope style pillow cover (there's a great how-to here)

Since it was an odd size, I decided to make a quick pillow insert using the same muslin fabric

I love it so much I'm headed off to get some cute fabric to match my own living room :)

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