A Robot Pillow :-)

I had a baby shower for a friend of mine on Saturday. Seems like everyone I know is pregnant - which means lots of showers and lots of gifts! I try to buy something off the registry for first time moms because I know they are things they probably really need, but for my friend Kelly I wanted to make something homemade for her little guy too. Kelly and her husband decided to do something a little different for the nursery - robots and bright colors. I thought that sounded like a super fun idea and came up with the idea to make a felt robot pillow to go in the baby's room.



This project was super simple. Hobby Lobby was  having a sale on their 8.5x11 pieces of felt (30 cents each!)  so my total cost for the felt was 1.50. I knew I was going to sew each piece on with embroidery floss, and as luck would have it, I went to a garage sale where the lady was cleaning out her crafting stash. I scored an entire box of embroidery floss for $1. Awesomeness!

I trolled the web for some inspiration pictures, and ended up basically using an Etsy seller's design for the pillow. Don't worry, I may have copied her work but I don't plan on plagiarizing her design for profit. :-)



Anyways, assembly was pretty straightforward. Cut out individual pieces, assemble on background to make sure I liked it, then start sewing. It was pretty fun and therapeutic. And fast. In no time at all I had all the pieces sewn onto the background. Then I sewed another piece of blue felt onto the first one to form a pillow, stuffed it and hand sewed it closed. Easy peasy. And it cost me about $5 to make. Not too shabby! Here's a closeup of  the finished product,



and the fun bin I found to give the pillow and the rest of the gifts.

This little project was so fun that I even whipped up a little initial tag for the bin too! Fun times. :-)

What have you made recently?