An Easy Christmas Pillow Cover

Today was a perfect day.

It’s was cold and overcast. It really looked like it might snow. We stayed home all day in our feety pajamas, which I will NEVER get tired of and watched the Steelers game-

Which was played in the pouring SNOW!

In between laying around, holding a cat or two and deciding on the best nap time Big Daddy and I worked on our individual projects.

This was mine 🙂

I had been piddling around all morning upstairs in our bedroom just adding a few suttle Christmas touches.

I had so enjoyed switching out a few things in our guest room that I decide to see what I could bring in to our bedroom.

The idea for the pillow cover came about when I could not find anything navy either in my stash of lumbar covers nor at any of the retails stores I’ve been in this Season.

This was my inspiration:

So, If you can’t find it?

Make it.

Here’s the supply list:

Plain pillow cover

(I made mine out of oatmeal colored linen)

Navy fabric

( I wanted navy felt but couldn’t find any)

Letters printed in Word

Chalk

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

I sewed my cover out of a scrap of linen that I had left over from another project. It has a simple envelope closure in the back. Next I printed out my letters in Word using Georgia at 500 point for the font.

I cut out the letters and used them as my pattern. I traced each one backwards (so that none of the chalk marks would show) on to my navy fabric and cut the letters out with really sharp, small scissors.

Next I layed out all of my letters on to the pillow cover and adjusted them until they were centered. When I was pretty happy with their placement I pressed the letters with a hot iron first and then hot-glued them securely to the cover. There were lots of little navy strings so I used a pair of nail clippers to get rid of those for a much cleaner edge on each letter.