Felt Pencil Pillow

Felt Pencil Pillow

Pencil pillows are always welcome in the classroom, who says you and the kids can’t be comfy? I replicated this pillow from this year’s Target dollar spot and I think I nailed it! Ok, so just like all the other teachers out there this time of year, I am beyond excited to be off for the summer but as soon as the stores put out their back to school stuff I can’t help but get exited! For the past couple years the Target dollar spot hasn’t disappointed, they really have some fun, useful and cool stuff, yep I’m a sucker for it. This year they have a pencil pillow for sale but I haven’t been able to find it so I thought why don’t I make my own and share how I did so.

Felt Pencil Pillow

I’ve also collaborated with the wonderful Trixi Symonds over at colouredbuttons.com for Sew a Softie month! It’s July and it’s time for you to pick up a needle and thread and learn how to make some simple stitches. You can learn a whole lot from Trixi because she’s the expert, check out this link as well... sewasoftie.com. Sew a Softie month is a campaign to encourage kids and their parents or teachers to make more art involving sewing, and for me this will alway be one of my favorites to make with my art classes! The kids really learn a unique skill, it helps them focus, stay on task and become better problem solvers on their own.

So on behalf of Sew a Softie month I’ve put together this pencil pillow tutorial, you’ll be needing a few things including my pencil pattern which you can download in this post below.

Materials:

• Felt
• Embroidery floss
• Needle for embroidery floss
• ​Fiber fill
• Fabric scissors

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Step 1. Fist you’ll have to decide how big you’d like your pillow, mine is about 18”x7.25”. My pattern is designed to print on 8.5”x11” paper so you will have to enlarge it if you’d like but it’s a very simple pattern and shouldn’t be an issue to just freehand your own pattern on a large piece of paper.

Step 2. Cut out your pattern and attach it to your felt, I like to just staple it but you can pin it if you like. Then cut out your shapes with fabric scissors they work best. Be sure to cut two layers of the large yellow piece.

Step 3. Next prepare your needle and thread with the embroidery floss. Use a running stitch to attach all of your pieces to the top layer of yellow felt only. Be sure to stitch on the seems that are inside the shape, don’t stitch the edges.

Step 4. Stitch on any other details you’d like, then stitch all around the edges, I used a blanket stitch for this, it’s much stronger and looks nice too. Leave an opening at the end to stuff with fiber fill.

Step 5. Fill your pillow and stitch up the remainder and bam! You have a cute little pencil lumbar pillow!

Felt Pencil Pillow

Have you found everything you wanted from the Target dollar spot? Did you make one of my felt pillow projects? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below!