Mr. and Mrs. Cloud Pillows

I saw these pillows at the Renegade Craft Fair and thought they were so cute!  They are made by Good Bye Blue Monday.  I actually only saw the girl pillows and decided to make a boy version of the pillows as well.  Then I check the site yesterday and saw they had made a boy version with a mustache as well!!  Thought that was pretty funny. 

I hope you enjoy these adorable pillows.  I think they would make cute gifts and/or decorations for a bridal shower.

Materials

1. 1 yard of white felt
2. 2 types of Patterned Fabric - for legs, one for girl one for guy
3. Black Felt - boy pillow mustache
4. Navy blue felt - girls shoes
5. Pink felt - girls cheeks
6. 2 Buttons - girls shoes
7. Embroidery Thread: black and pink
8. White Thread
9. Fiber Fill - pillow stuffing

Tools

1. Sewing Machine
2. Scissors
3. Wide eyed needle
4. Regular needle

I drew this pattern myself.  I'm not going to include the pattern because part of the charm of these pillows is that they are all a little different.  So have fun in creating your own patterns.  Here are a few tips on how I made and cut mine.

Legs - about 8.5" long and curve at the bottom.  You will need to cut out 4 pieces for each pillow. 

Cloud - my cloud pattern is just 1/2 of the cloud.

• Layer two pieces of fabric each a about 18"x18".
• Folded the fabric diagonally in half (looks like a triangle)
• Place the pattern on the fold of the fabric.
• Instead of pinning the pattern to the fabric, I just pinned the fabric down at the edges and traced the pattern with a marker.
• Leaving the pins in the fabric, remove the pattern and cut just inside of the marker line.  Now you have your two pattern pieces

You will make two different faces, one for the guy and one for the girl.

Girls Face:

• Cut out two small pink ovals for the cheeks.  You want the centers of each about 3.5" apart.  Sew them on with pink embroidery thread.
• Using black embroidery thread, sew the eyes on.  I liked the stitched looks so I left a little space between each stitch.  The main detail that separates the girl from the guy (besides mustache) is the added eye lash.  So go back and add a small eyelash above the eye.
• To finish create the puckered lips for the mouth.

Guys Face:

• Just as you did for the girl, use black embroidery thread to sew the eyes on. I liked the stitched looks so I left a little space between each stitch.  Do not add the eyelash
• Cut out mustache and sew it on like you did the cheeks with black thread.

• Once legs are cut out pin them back to back (patterned sides touching).  Sew along the edges leaving the top sides open. 
• Turn the legs inside out and stuff them with the fiber fill.  Leave about 3/4" of the leg unfilled.

• Place the embroidered face on the table facing you.
• Place the legs on top of the face.  You want the legs to be facing each other and right at the edge of the eyes.  Make sure 1/2" of the unfilled leg is sticking over the edge of the cloud and 1/4" of the unfilled legs are on the inside.
• Place the plain cloud layer over the legs and face so it matches up exactly with the bottom layer.
• Pin the two layers together.
• Sew about 1/4" from edge all the way around.  Start sewing a 1/2" to the right of the left leg, and end 1/2" after the left of the right leg (see image notes).  You want to make sure to leave a 2" gap so you can turn the pillow inside out and stuff.
• Once the edge is sewn, turn turn the pillow inside out and stuff.  Make sure you get stuffing in all the corners.
• Hand sew the gap using a slip stitch.

My camera deleted my images for the pattern and cutting of the shoes, but its really simple. Use the end of your leg pattern piece to cut out 2 pieces of felt for each food.  Cut in the details to distinguish the types of shoes.  For the girl I made mary janes and the boy I made flip flops.  Sew them together and put them on the feet and sew 2-3 contact points to the legs so the shoes don't fall off.  For the girls shoes I glued on some cute elephant buttons for detail.