I saw some Mr. and Mrs. Pillows on Pinterest (just search for it and a bunch will pop up) and I thought they were pretty cute. We have a king size bed now and needed some new pillows. These are perfect – we never forget which side of the bed is ours!
My first task was to make the stencil. I printed off my Mr. and Mrs. in the font and size I wanted.(Oh – these instructions are perfect for people without fancy machines that easily make stencils for you! lol)
I used a permanent marker to trace my letters on the shiny side of the con-tact paper. It’s Rubbermaid brand – stuff you’d line your cupboards with.
Use your trusty exacto knife to cut out your letters and voila – you have a stencil!
I made my pillow covers out of drop-cloth fabric (so many uses for that stuff). I just did a simple envelope style – cut a long rectangle and fold the ends in. Pin it and sew up the sides. I didn’t even need to hem the edge you see – I used the finished edge of the drop-cloth!
My pillow forms came from a thrift store at less than $2 each. It’s so easy to slide into the fabric envelope.
With my pillows made, it’s time for the letters. I peeled the paper off the back side of the stencil and placed the sticky side down exactly where I wanted it.
And then I painted it – use your stencil brush and use small amounts of paint so it doesn’t seep under the edges of the stencil. I should have put a book under the fabric so I could be painting against a firmer surface – the pillow was too soft!
In order to fancy the pillows up a little, I bought some piping to put along the seems. This was the most expensive part of my project at $0.69/meter – and I needed three whole meters!!!Don’t you love my method for applying it? I glue gunned it on!!! Actually, this was just my way to hold it exactly in place. I did loosely stitch it on too. Doesn’t it just give the pillows a little boost?
There’s how much of the three meters I had left. First I asked for two meters, and as the salesperson had her scissors open and was ready to cut, I yelled “Wait! You’d better give me three meters.” Great estimate!!!I’m really loving my new pillows!
Maybe next I’ll need to make an ampersand pillow!
Maybe next I’ll need to make an ampersand pillow!There they are! I wanted my Mr. and Mrs. big enough to easily be seen, but not too overpowering in size.
This is how they usually look – with my bear Mason instead of the ampersand. My two-year old loves to jump and Mason is much softer for when she bonks her head.
Loving my new pillows – and especially loving the fact that both of them together cost me less than ten dollars! And . . . I still have my Mr. and Mrs. stencil!!!
