DIY pillow-heart - pattern

The decorative design of modern houses has no boundaries; you can safely create, create the most unusual, original and bright objects to decorate the interior. Perhaps you are bored with the usual atmosphere and you want to bring some zest, or on the eve of the holiday you thought about creating an unusual gift for your loved one? This article will help you in solving this issue, you can create something interesting and creative using the given master classes. Here we will look at how a pillow-heart is sewn with our own hands. The pattern that we will use is quite simple, so you will not have any difficulties along the way.

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Features of the manufacture of heart-shaped pillows

Do-it-yourself pillow-heart is made quite easily, so it does not belong to the category of complex products. Most often, problems arise in the process of decorating the finished product, at this stage beginner needlewavers have a lot of difficulties.

Important! The pillow, the manufacture of which we will describe later, is suitable as an original gift for a loved one or little girl, because in fact it is a symbiosis of a soft toy and pillow. Due to the handles with which it will be equipped, it can be carried with you. A child will certainly be delighted with such a “new resident” of his room.

Materials for work

• It is imperative that it be made of quality fabric. Here the decisive factor will be not the cost and pleasantness of the material to the touch, but its composition, the absence of synthetic fibers. Sewing such things is better on your own, because it allows you to control the quality of the product, which is often low among modern manufacturers.
• The filler must be hypoallergenic.
• It is recommended to make an internal pillow with a cover so that it can be washed periodically, but this did not affect the appearance of the product.

Pattern

The pattern here is of secondary importance, because you can use the simplest pattern, if you want to make any changes to it. Be that as it may, the heart shape is very simple, it is simply impossible to get confused in it, the only problem can occur with fingers on hands. But this element can be simplified, for example, by making hands in the shape of mittens, because the simpler the shape, the less difficulties there will be with a three-dimensional figure.

The pattern is simply applied to the fabric, bent inward with the front side, then cut with small allowances for seams. Finished parts are sewn together, a free part is left below to fill the pillow with filler through it.

Important! It is better not to fill the handles very tightly, because they should bend. You can make a face for the product so that the child willingly plays with it.

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Do-it-yourself heart pillow

We proceed from theory to practice, consider in detail how to sew a pillow-heart with your own hands. Such a wonderful craft is guaranteed to be appreciated by your baby, and the process itself will bring you a lot of pleasure and positive emotions.

You will need a very small set of materials:

• White, red, black fleece.
• Filler.
• Threads.
• Needle or sewing machine.
• Toy eyes.

Sew the product as follows:

1. On paper, draw a pillow, all the constituent parts.
2. Transfer each element to paper, cut to get the patterns on which the pillow will be cut.
3. First of all, cut out two white fleece hearts, four parts of handles, two legs. Make a mouth out of black fleece. Cut out the heart itself from the red fleece - you will get two large hearts, as well as a side part in the form of a strip with a length corresponding to the sides of the product, for slippers 2 pieces of socks, two stripes with a length equal to the sides of the foot and 2 cm wide.
4. Assemble the pillow. Take a big red heart, put two white hearts on top of it and sew them on the cheeks.
5. Determine where the mouth should be, apply it and sew.
6. Sew on the eyes.
7. Make pens. Take two blanks of hands, fold them and sew them. Corners will have to be cut so that the parts in the corners of the hands lie evenly. Turn out handles.
8. Fill the product loosely with filler. Also do the second handle.
9. Using the needles, stick the pens to the heart, and in the places of their location, sew the red side strip.
10. Sew the second to the finished heart. Do not forget to leave a small section unstitched to turn the product through it. We carve corners again.
11. Turn out the pillow, fill it with filler. Manually sew in the remaining section.
12. Collect slippers. Take a foot of red color, sew a red stripe to it. Sew the red sock to the white foot. Sew the received details. Turn and fill with filler. In the same way, make a second slipper.
13. Sew legs to the resulting heart manually.
14. Sew a mouth with a chain stitch.

Here the work is finished, your child with great pleasure will play or sleep with such a pillow.

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Simple homemade heart pillow

Now you will learn how to sew a pillow-heart even easier, because this model does not imply the presence of handles and legs, which, as it turned out, many have problems. The main thing is to make the heart perfectly even, without scars and angularities.

Important! If you are just starting your career, then this artwork will take you no more than 30 minutes.

Here's what comes in handy for your work:

• Any material is pink or red.
• Scissors.
• Synthetic winterizer.
• Thread and needle.
• Sewing machine.
• Pencil and paper for making patterns.

It will take only a few steps to get such a product:

• First of all, make a heart pattern from paper, put it on already prepared material.

Important! Note that the tissue heart should be larger than the paper by about one centimeter. This is important, because two halves will have to be stitched together.

• Cut the blanks, connect the two elements of the tissue heart, sew them on a sewing machine. From the bottom, leave a free section of 10 cm to fill the pillow with padding polyester.
• Make cuts around the entire perimeter so that the edges do not puff and the fabric does not tighten.
• Fill the product with a padding polyester, then try to evenly distribute it.
• Sew the part that remains open.

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Stock footage

Here is such a simple but useful pillow in the shape of a heart with your own hands will come out of you. Such crafts can be made in large quantities to present to friends or loved ones.