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Baby swing pillow

kierstynrae

My daughter LOVES her swing but smacks her head when I’m a little too aggressive with the pushing. I had some extra fabric hanging around so I got to work! It was a happy coincidence that the colours matched nicely.

I took a 12″ by 12″ piece of fabric and folded it in half to place the velcro circles. I sewed them onto the fabric first. I then turned the fabric inside out and sewed up a short and long side. I left a short side open to stuff it with pillow stuffing leftover from her knot pillow project. I turned the rough edges in and finished the last short edge. All done!

It works perfectly! I take it in when we’re done with the swing so it doesn’t get gross. She loves it!

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Pillow Lounger

kierstynrae

First off, I have to say this was one of the easiest projects of my life! I got the idea from this pin on Pinterest. She used velcro to close the open ends of the pillowcases but I chose not to.

I bought 4 matching (I thought) pillowcases, washed and ironed them, sewed them together, added pillows and voilà!

It turned out that the chevron pattern was horizontal on 2 and vertical on the other 2. The sizes were a little off, as well. Nothing that bothered me that much.

I did a zigzag stitch to hold them together. I matched the edges as best I could and sewed the long edges together.

You can see the size discrepancy in the picture below.

After you stuff the pillows in you can’t tell at all!

She loves it!

In all, I paid $10 for all 4 pillowcases in a Fabricland sale. I paid $3.50 for each pillow at Walmart. It would be really easy to add pillows on for children or adults that are taller. It took a couple hours to wash, dry and iron the pillowcases and about 10 minutes to sew them together. It was a cheap and easy project!