Really getting started with #HallowFest15 means decorating the house weeks in advance. A whole month of Halloween, yes please.
One of the first things I wanted to try included making throw pillows out of some old Nightmare Before Xmas tees. I have had these since at least Junior High. Vintage Hot Topic.
I thought by safety pinning the shirt together before I started cutting would help. Not so much. In the end on both shirts I had to do some trimming.
At first I though I had cut the red shirt too small. Luckily the material is really stretchy and plumped with the filling.
Also sewing shirt material is a massive pain. My sewing machine kept trying to eat the material. The struggle was real.
Sewing the squares together inside out. I almost forgot to leave a hole big enough to turn it right side out again and fill it with stuffing. The newest thing I had to learn for these throw pillows was the "Ladder Stitch" a way of sewing up the pillows after filling them so that you cannot see the stitches. I looked at a few tutorials online and it turned out to be pretty simple.
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Despite some problems these came out great. At least Slithering Sam likes them.
The HalloweenFest decor has begun!!
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