Football Jersey Pillow

 

Football jersey pillow

     A neighbor of mine had her father pass away recently.  She had a couple of items of his that she wanted me to make into pillows.  The first was a jersey from high school.  She ordered a couple of pillow forms from Amazon.  They come flat and vacuum packed.  I put them in the dryer on air dry with some dryer balls to fluff them up.

Flat pillows

After time in the dryer

    I also cut off the tags before I stuff them inside the pillow cover, I hate hearing/feeling them crunching while using the pillow.

Embroidery detail

     I asked my neighbor if she wanted a label on the pillow so that future generations would know who this belonged to.  She jumped at the idea and sent me what she wanted on each pillow.  For this one I used a font that is digitized to be small.  Thankful MasterWorks has a couple in their selection.  

Football jersey

     Because the number on the jersey was near the top, I was not able to center it on the pillow.  She wanted the stripe from the sleeve to be incorporated into the pillow also.  On one side of the pillow I stitched the stripe to the bottom half of the piece.  On the other side, I did the embroidery and then added the small label that was on the jersey front.

One side of the pillow

The other side of the pillow

     I did interface the jersey, the same as I do when I make t-shirt quilts.  I then used my pillow template that has the dog-ears already removed, to trace out the two sides of the pillow.  I then sewed them together and stuffed in the form.  I then sewed up the opening by hand.

Detail of stripe sewn on

Football jersey pillow