Kid's Travel Pillow Case

So in true Four Mom fashion, I'm super late getting this blog up. But, it's still Friday, and I'm writing it, so that counts!

Our youngest son is in love with all things Rocket Ships. On one of our many trips to the fabric store, he picked out this adorable fabric, and asked that I make him a pillow. I'm on it OD BEAR, momma's got you.




I started by washing, preshrinking, and then ironing the fabric. And grabbed a couple scraps I had and did the same with them for the trim.

Once everything was washed and ironed, I started measuring an old case I had. I came up with these approximate measurements.

Large Edge Panel: 10"x13"

Trim: 1"x13"

Pillow Body: 15"x13"

I then got to cutting.




My trim piece


Edge Panel




My finished pieces. Once the trim pieces were cut, I folded them exactly in half and pressed them with the iron.

I then took my two edge panel pieces, and pressed them exactly in half.

Once that was done, I pressed the edges on the panels folded over once, to create a finished edge. Now here is how you get super scientific with your measuring when you lose the fancy seam ruler you usually use.




That's right, this Boy Mom used what she had ample of in her home. Legos. Hey, it worked, and I didn't have to scream too much.

After pressing the edges of the panels, I pinned the trim pieces inside the folded edge panels.







Next was a quick seam to hold these two pieces together.

My two finished edge pieces.



Next up, was to pin these to my pillow body panels.




Again, my super accurate Lego was used to make sure the edges were pinned the same width on each panel.



Then a couple quick seams to attach the two pieces.

After your two panels have the trim attached, your ready to pin them right sides together and finish your pillow case.




Now I need to apologize because I lost a bunch of pictures somehow. But, I chose to do about a 1/2" seam all the way around the three edges that needed to be sewn together.

After that all that was left was flipping the case inside out and stuffing the pillow in there.




I love how this turned out. It is fit perfectly to the pillow, and my little man loves it.







This project was very easy, and done quickly. Both of those things make me endlessly happy, because with 4 kiddos time and patience are not things I have a lot of. ;)

Fall Foliage

I'm ready for FALL!! Like really, really ready. It's still pretty warm here, the leaves aren't changing yet, they're only sort of falling off their perch, I need things to speed up a bit. Despite Mother Nature's reluctance to make this happen, I wanted my front porch looking
Like it was 50 degrees and windy everyday. Glad I have Pinterest for that. I had seen a post on turning $1 pumpkin candy buckets into planters and I was ALL IN! So, here they are. These took about 5 minutes, and I am in love with them.

The supplies:






Two buckets and one can of Metalic Spray paint from Rustoleum.







This project was as simple as, pull off the bucket handles, and paint. That's it. Leave to dry, then plant away.

Here's the finished project:




















I seriously love these, and Pinterest of course for the inspiration. So cheap and easy. This project with the flowers only cost $12. You can't buy one plant in a nice planter for that cost, and these are so cool for a porch where small kiddos live.

Fall Foliage

I'm ready for FALL!! Like really, really ready. It's still pretty warm here, the leaves aren't changing yet, they're only sort of falling off their perch, I need things to speed up a bit. Despite Mother Nature's reluctance to make this happen, I wanted my front porch looking
Like it was 50 degrees and windy everyday. Glad I have Pinterest for that. I had seen a post on turning $1 pumpkin candy buckets into planters and I was ALL IN! So, here they are. These took about 5 minutes, and I am in love with them.

The supplies:



Two buckets and one can of Metalic Spray paint from Rustoleum.




This project was as simple as, pull off the bucket handles, and paint. That's it. Leave to dry, then plant away.

Here's the finished project:











I seriously love these, and Pinterest of course for the inspiration. So cheap and easy. This project with the flowers only cost $12. You can't buy one plant in a nice planter for that cost, and these are so cool for a porch where small kiddos live.