Quillow - Blanket and Pillow

Hello, Friends!  Marilyn here with a quick and easy sewing project.  I found several YouTube videos that I used as my tutorial in creating my quillow.

What is a Quillow?   A quillow is basically a fleece blanket that folds into a pillow.  So, unfolded you have a fleece blanket.  Folded up, it's a pillow.   I thought these would be great to keep either in your car or on your couch.  They could be used to take to a football game, too.  You could sit on them; then if it gets cool, unfold and you have a nice warm blanket to use.

Fleece blanket folds inside pillow covering

Supplies:

• Fleece blanket - I purchased mine at Walmart for $5.88.  Unfolded it's the size of a twin blanket.
• Two fat quarters - or two 18" x 18" square fabric pieces.

Steps:

• Sew the two fabric pieces or fat quarters right side together.  Leave a 2 inch opening for turning.  Once sewn, turn right side out and top stitch along the side that had the opening.  This creates your pillow portion.
• Fold blanket in half to locate the center (at top of blanket).  Pin to mark.
• Fold the pillow in half and pin to mark center.
• Alien the centers of pillow and blanket and stitch around 3 sides.  Leave the top open - you'll need it to inset the blanket when folding.

Fold:

• Lay your finished quillow down with pillow side on underside.  
• Fold blanket into thirds length-wise.  This basically folds each side up to seam of pillow.  
• Starting at bottom, start folding the blanket up until it is the same size as the pillow.
• Turn over to pillow side and flip pillow over to enclose the blanket.

Need a visual on how to make this?  (Me, too)

• Here's a YouTube example.  There are several others on YouTube.  DIY Fleece Pillow Blanket

Finished and folded Quillow

It's a pillow when folded and a blanket when unfolded

Thank you for visiting today! ~ Marilyn

Reading Pillow

Hello, Friends!  Marilyn here with a school fundraiser project.  I was asked by a teacher at a local elementary school to make some bingo prizes.

I created this Reading Pillow with an envelope closure on back and a cute image on the front.  The wrap portion seen on the front is used to insert a book.  I'm thinking this idea would be cute at Christmas time using different fabric and image and inserting new Christmas pajamas.

Finished pillow measures 14" x 14"

You'll need some basic sewing skills to create this envelope closure pillow.

Fabric Cutting:

• Front of pillow :  ABC fabric cut 15" x 15".
• Back of pillow:  two cuts of  ABC fabric  10" x 15"  and 11" x 15"
• Wrap:  one cut of white polyester fabric 7.5" x 15"

Sublimation Part:  

• Image of panda as well as the text were purchased for $3.00 from Etsy store BizzyLouDesigns

I opened the Panda image into my Silhouette software and changed the colors to my preference.  I also sized the image to 4.5" x 9.5"  to fit my wrap fabric.  Image was then "flipped" horizontally and printed onto Sublimation transfer paper.   Then I heat pressed the image onto my white polyester fabric at 390 degrees for 60 seconds.  

Sewing Part:

After cutting fabric, hem the two back ABC fabric pieces.  Hem both the top and bottom of the white polyester wrap - that now has the Panda and Text.

Position the white wrap onto the front ABC fabric and pin in place.  With right sides together, pin the two back fabric pieces to the front.   Sew 1/2" all the way around.   I also serged the edges.  

• For different sized pillows and tutorial on sewing envelope pillows see Melanie Ham's post.
• YouTube tutorial on sewing envelope pillows

Flip right side out - and it's done!

Additional purchases:

• Pillow form for $7.99 from Hobby Lobby (before 40% off coupon)
• Pete the Cat book for $10.99 from Sams

Finished pillow with book

Couldn't stop with just one!  Made two other pillows.

Thank you for visiting today! ~ Marilyn