Claire's Blog

I was at the doctor's office a couple of weeks ago and mom was looking at a magazine as we were waiting for a doctor. She pointed out the article about "Monster Pillows" and thought it would be cute if we made our own! Over the weekend i looked up how to make a monster pillow. Nothing showed up except you sew "inside out". Therefore, I had to make up a design and improvise from there. I took some old clothes that weren't in good enough shape to give away. So I drew my design on paper, cut it out, traced it 1/2 in from the design and hand sewed it! My first monster pillow :)

Today, there was no school and I decided to make another monster pillow. I tried to use a pattern from last week on the sewing machine, but that didn't work out too well. Meaning, I had to start all over. I thought of what animals i liked...FISH! Based on the goldfish crackers, I drew a "goldfish" straight on a soft piece of fabric. Then, i cut out some strips from all the old clothes I had saved for this. Using the sewing machine I sewed the first layer leaving 2 in opening to turn the unstuffed pillow inside out. Next, I stuffed the pillow and closed up the hole by hand. It took me the whole day to hand sew the strips on. I didn't have enough for the back and I didn't want to leave he back blank. So, I took a button and sewed it on along with a mouth. And I had a fish pillow :)

And a special thanks to Mom for helping me work the sewing machine
and Kelly for letting me use her camera :)