Mustache Pillow Tutorial by Family Ever After

Hi! I’m Rachel, and my blog is Family Ever After.
I’m so excited about guest posting on UCreate. I have met Kari, and I just adore her. UCreate was one of the first crafting blogs I ever read, and I’ve always been a loyal fan. It’s fun to be here, along with some of my other favorite sewing bloggers and friends!I am a country girl at heart… my 4 sisters and I grew up in South Dakota. I’ve know my husband since we were 12, he grew up there too! I went to college at BYU, where I learned how to sew, and majored in Family and Consumer Science Education. Right out of college, I taught middle school sewing for one year. I’m now living my dream being a mom to three kids. I’m very passionate about letting them “help” me do projects. Basically, my blog is a big mish mash of things I love: sewing, crafting, food, family, travel, gardening, running, and taking pictures of it all!

My project today is simple, yet fun. I made a mustache pillow! I know the mustache trend has been around for a while, and some of you are over it. But I am hoping this pillow will stand the test of time. It’s the latest addition to my Father’s Day decorations 🙂

Mustache Pillow Tutorial by Family Ever After

There are so many fun projects you can make with a fat quarter of fabric. Sometimes, the fabric is so pretty that you just know it needs to be used in a quilt top. Other times, its fun to let the fabric do the talking. I have a growing stack of fat quarters on my shelf, and as I was digging through my “stache,” (hehe), I remembered I had bought this print months ago… it was just too fun to pass up. It was just begging me to sew it into a fun pillow…

This is a great project for little kids to help with (I am teaching my 7 year old daughter how to sew, and she loves helping with easy projects like this). We had so much fun making it, that we made two! (Two pillows out of 2 contrasting fat quarters).

My kids won’t stop playing with them! However, I’ll be packing them away soon, into our “Father’s Day Decorations Box.” These guys are only invited to live on my couch but once a year.

So anyway, here’s how we made them:

I began by drawing a template. It took a couple of tries to come up with something that I liked.

You will have to “free hand” draw yours. Mine ended up looking like a whale-ish. Then I flipped it over, traced it again, and then taped it together, overlapping it a few inches.

Then I gave the ‘stache a little trim cut out my 2 layers of fabric. If yours is a directional print, make sure you don’t cut it upside down. I cut through both layers at once, carefully using my rotary cutter.

Next, pin right sides together. Make a mental note or a small notch at the bottom, where you will leave a 4 inch opening. Mine was between the 2 blue pins.

Sew around the pillow with a 1/4 inch seam allowance, (except at the opening). When sewing around the mustache handlebars, go very slow, sew in the needle down position, and pivot a lot. I decreased my stitch length to reinforce my stitches. I then went back and repeated my stitches where the pillow would receive the most wear and tear, for added strength.