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Naughty & Nice Pillows Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on September 18, 2019

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

TIME REQUIRED

02:30

FINISHED SIZE

20 x 14 inches

Description

Sometimes simple says it best. Have fun with these super easy to make Naughty & Nice Christmas pillows.

Project Preview Video

Materials

12” x 8” embroidery hoop

1 1/4 yard White Kona Cloth®

1 1/4 yard Red Kona Cloth®

7/8th yard of Pellon® Soft 101 Shape Flex or Easy Knit Fusible Interfacing

No Show stabilizer to fit your hoop for two hoopings

2 14” x 20” pillow forms

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/naug01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/naug02

Final Product: What You Will Create

Step 1:

From the white and the red Kona Cloth® cut 3 14” strips of fabric across the width of the fabrics. From each color fabric cut 1 strip down to 14” x 20” for the front of the pillow and 2 14” x 24” strips for the back of the pillow. Cut 2 14” x 20” pieces of the interfacing.

Step 2:

Fuse the interfacing to the 14” x 20” fabrics following the manufacturer’s instructions. Fold the fabrics lengthwise and crosswise and finger press creases in both directions to assist with proper hooping.

Step 3:

Tautly hoop the prepared fabric and no-show stabilizer in the hoop aligning the creases with the marks on your hoop to center the design in the hoop.

Step 4:

Embroidery the design centered in the hoop.

Step 5:

Trim the stabilizer off about ¼” around the edge of the design. Press the fabric to remove hoop marks and the creases. Press the two pillow backs in half to make two 14” x 12” backs.

Step 6:

Lay the pillow front on a flat surface right side up. Position to the two folded fabric back panels so that the raw edges meet the raw edges of the pillow front and that the folded edges overlap at the center back of the pillow. Clip or pin around the pillow through all layers.

Step 7:

At your sewing machine stitch all the way around the pillow cover with a ½” seam.

Step 8:

Clip all 4 corners.

Step 9:

Trim all seam allowances to ¼” and zigzag or serge around the raw edges.

Step 10:

Turn the pillow right side out and press. Insert the pillow form by pushing it all the way down under the first back panel until you can get it up and under the other back panel. I could not get a picture to show the way the way the panels overlap, as the overlap would just disappear in the photo. So, I’ve drawn on the overlap in this photo just to show you the direction in which it runs.

Step 11:

Stitch up the second pillow following the above steps. Congratulations your Naughty & Nice pillows are complete!

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.