felt letters

Personalized Pillows

| A Peace of Creativity

It’s time for another felt project!  After making the Chicka Letters, I wanted to use the same concept to create personalized pillows for some of the dear little ones in our lives.

20150620-namepillows-01Using the same font but in a smaller size as the Chicka Letters, I printed and cut out letter stencils from the computer.

20150620-namepillows-02From my abundant supply of felt, I tried to pick complementary colors for each letter of the name.  I love this pillow cover because it allows the colors to pop and brings a youthful and modern balance.

20150620-namepillows-03In order to center the name on the pillow, I simply folded the pillow in half height and lengthwise and marked it with a pin.  This gave me a guideline to work from.  After placing all of the letters down, I then measured the left and right margins in order to make sure they were of similar length.  A plastic cutting board inside the pillow case allowed for an easier pinning session!

20150621-namepillows-05This is a case where an embroidery hoop really comes in handy because the pillowcase is pre-made.  Using the hoop kept the opening of the pillowcase wide enough to stitch in and out. And, it’s done!

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Chicka Letters

| A Peace of Creativity

20150607-chickaletters-04A told B,
and B told C,
“I’ll meet you at the top
of the coconut tree.”

At age 1, this was the first book our daughter absolutely loved and needed to read over and over and over again.  Correction, needed “US” to read over and over and over again.  I can still pretty much recite the entire book in my head.

I wanted to make the story more interactive for her and so, I decided to make the letters 3D.

20150607-chickaletters-10I picked a font that was fairly similar to the letters in the book, and printed out templates on plain pieces of white paper.  Using those as stencils, I traced two copies of each letter onto colored felt (I LOVE felt!) with black marker and cut them out.  I read that a chalk pencil works best to trace on felt, but didn’t have one.  A black sharpie it was!  And honestly, it worked fine.20150607-chickaletters-18With a needle and some embroidery thread, I did a quick, simple stitch around the letters anywhere from 1/8″ to 1/4″ apart.  I didn’t have thread to match all of the colors but used similar tones. A chopstick did the trick to push the stuffing down in long and narrow portions.

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I have to admit, they came out pretty awesome and I learned from this process that felt is pretty forgiving.  Even though my cuts were not straight or my stitches were uneven, you couldn’t even tell. 20150607-chickaletters-07Needless to say, our daughter loves them.  For those of you familiar with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, this is her favorite part of the book. Now, it is ten times better because she can throw all the letters in the air and yell, “Oh no!”

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