Tutorial Tuesday: Thanksgiving Turkey Pillow

Since my children’s hands will only be so little for a limited time, I came up with this idea:

There are two parts to this tutorial.

I had an old sweater that I knew would make a cute pillow.

So, I cut it up to form two squares (one for the front, one for the back of the pillow).

I took the front piece and added the turkeys!

To do this, I traced my kid’s hand onto regular paper, cut them out, and re-traced it onto the felt. Yes, it seems I should have traced directly onto the felt first, but I knew my little ones wouldn’t hold still that long and it would be faster to use paper first.

Anyhow, I then cut out the turkey bodies, making each one a little smaller than the previous. I wanted them to be a little more proportional to the hand/feathers.

I then added some legs and a beak to each turkey.  For the legs, I made them long enough to tuck up under the turkey. This is so they would be stitched over when I sewed the turkey body on.

Then, I laid them out on the front part of the sweater.

I only sewed on the turkey body and beak using a zig-zag stitch.

This left the hand/feathers and feet of the turkey attached, but still able to have a 3-D look.

I generally followed this idea from Made By Lex to make it into a pillow.

I think it turned out pretty cute!

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