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Blue Ticking Patch Pillow

April 20, 2011

Seeing as I am now going to have to make some valances for the bub’s room and I’m never going to reveal his room, I thought I’d share with you a pillow I made for his bed. When I purchased the quilt for his bed I didn’t buy the sham and this last time when I went to TJ Maxx to purchase it, they didn’t have it in. What’s a girl to do?
I tried using a solid sham and didn’t really like they way it looked on the bed. Last night, while looking for a valance for his room at Wally world, I ran across this pillow for $4.

Suddenly, an idea was born! I threw that pillow in my cart and headed to the fabric section. They didn’t have what I was looking for but my next stop was Hancock Fabrics and they did have what I was looking for!
I purchased some navy felt and a blue gingham check square of fabric. I came home, turned on the ol’ laptop and set to work on google docs. I made the letter J and the number 4, printed them off, cut them out and traced them onto some card stock I had. 

I then traced the 4 and the J onto the blue gingham check and cut those out. Next I traced the 4 and the J backwards onto the navy blue felt with a sharpie marker but a little larger size than the what I traced onto the check fabric. I didn’t want the black sharpie to show so tracing it on backwards solved that little problem.  I also cut the tags off the side of the pillow because they were annoying and useless.
I then used some adhesive spray and sprayed the check fabric onto the felt and then sprayed the back of the felt and placed it on my pillow, the 4 on one side and the J on the other side of the pillow. Here it is on the bub’s bed.

A cute little pillow for not a lot of money or effort.  I spent about $6 total on this project.  I thought the number 10 would be really cute but went with 4 because he’s the 4th child and the J is the letter of his first name.  Hopefully soon I will get some valances made and can finally reveal this room!

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Comments

  1. Michelle @Shellsshabbyshack says

    April 20, 2011 at 4:00 am

    These are too cute! All of my boys names start with J. I love the ticking! They have a Pottery Barn feel! Nice work!
    ~Michelle 🙂

    Reply
  2. Tammy @ Type A says

    April 20, 2011 at 4:15 am

    small world,my son has the same quilt! love the pillow. thanks for partying at Type A!

    Reply
  3. Kimmie @ Sugar and Dots says

    April 20, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    So cute!! And 4 is my favorite number. 🙂

    Thank you for linking up to What I Whipped Up Wednesday! xo

    Reply
  4. Yvonne@StyleBurb says

    April 20, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    A very smart idea! The blue stripes are perfect with the quilt. Seeing J's bed makes me so nostalgic! So, the curtains you ordered never arrived? That's a pain!

    Reply
  5. Judy says

    April 21, 2011 at 1:45 am

    Such a creative idea. It looks great. BTW #4 is my favorite and lucky number. Thanks for sharing at my Swing into Spring party.

    Reply
  6. Tara Cole says

    April 21, 2011 at 6:26 am

    This is great, Ange! Love it (: By the way, I think the link to my blog you have listed here is from my old site from a few months ago, it may not work anymore (:

    You are so creative, how does your brain work that way?! Fun.

    Reply
  7. Shan@FamilyBringsJoy says

    April 22, 2011 at 3:22 am

    Way cute! Just brilliant! Love your style, my friend. 😉

    Reply

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