Handprint Pillows

 

Finished Pillows

     My mom passed away in November.  When we were cleaning out her place, we found a sweatshirt that we had done for her 20+ years ago.  Obviously no one in the family really wanted it so I decided to take it and make small pillows from it.

Prepping the cut square

     I cut out each handprint and added fusible interfacing to the back.  Then I sewed white canvas fabric to frame the handprint and cut them to size to make the pillows.

Flat pillows

     I bought some pillow forms from Amazon.  They were really compressed for shipping.  After opening them up, they still were pretty flat, so I placed them in the dryer on air fluff with some clean tents shoes to fluff them up.

Just opened pillow forms

Pillow forms after the dryer

     After sewing the pillow cover and inserting the form, I opted to just sew them closed by machine as there were ten of them and not a high end design pillow.

Front of the sweatshirt

Back of the sweatshirt

  

     As one of the co-executors of the will, it was my job to write out the inheritance checks as dictated by my mom's will.  I then placed the checks with a note explaining about the pillows and mailed them off.  My youngest niece was not born when this sweatshirt was done so I used the sleeves of the sweatshirt to make her a pillow and embroidered her name on it.  I wanted to make sure each of my mom's grandkids had a piece of her memory.