So I’ve been so excited about decorating for St. Patrick’s Day this year. Our house has been re-painted. We’ve gotten new furniture. Woah. Scratch that. The furniture that I ordered was supposed to get here yesterday. And here’s the shocker – it’s not even scheduled to be in the warehouse until March 23!! WHAT!?! So they are sending us a couch to borrow until ours gets in. I’m not going to lie. I’m bummed. The borrow couch isn’t gray. It’s green. But then I thought – let’s think positive (remember this week’s challenge?) at least it is a green couch for St.Patrick’s Day. So yeah buddy we are going ALL out this year – green couch and all for the month of March.
Anyways. That cute pillow up there. I made it. I love it. While I was out on my hunt for cute St. Patrick’s Day stuff I came up with practically nothing. Bummer. So I came up with this project to make a leprechaun silhouette pillow.
This was such a SUPER easy project to do. The part that takes the most time is cutting out the leprechauns. Because you have to cut them out 3 times.
First print the image. I just typed in leprechaun silhouette into google images. Here is a link to the image I used. I made mine black and white to save ink (in Picasa make it like a coloring book). Then I printed it to fit the page. Make sure the size works for your pillow.
Go ahead and cut it out. Then I traced it onto Steam-A-Seam. And you guessed it cut it out.
Next, iron it onto the fabric (in my case I chose green). And – yup – one more time. Cut it out.
Position them onto your pillow case. And iron them on. Easy peasy.
Do you need a pillow case? How about making one. It’s super fast – and super easy. I made just a basic envelope pillowcase. That way after the holiday is over I can switch on a different pillowcase.
Here is a good tutorial for making envelope back pillow cases. (It takes about 10 minutes – and only 4 straight lines to sew. You will never look at pillow cases the same again. I promise!)
Linking up here.
You did a fantastic job! The pillow looks great. I’m sorry about your furniture.
Super cute pillow. I am hosting a go green group etsy event and you could link this up for a chance to win. I also host a weekly fri-monday linky and would love for you to share your talents there.
I totally dig this pillow. I think my sons would like the figures a lot. I’m having a St. Patty’s link party and would love for you to come share this post. 🙂
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I love this project. I hope you will stop by and link up to my St. Patty’s Day Project Parade.
I like this, it’s cute. I’m sooo gonna try this hopefully before St Patrick’s day, it’s creeping up fast!
xoxo
twentyfour7
Thanks for sharing, hope to see you again on Friday at Bacon Time.