Sunday 12 February 2012

D.I.Y Stencil Pillow!

You will need;
- a pencil
- a blank pillow cover
- some cardboard (to lean on)
- a stencil (optional, to keep things neat)
- a permanent marker (my sharpie worked!)


After choosing your quote, put cardboard inside the cushion cover to keep the marker from bleeding through to the other side and to keep the fabric stretched out smooth.
Use a pencil to stencil your quote onto the pillow cover, that way if you mess up the spacing you can erase the pencil lines and redo them! You can’t fix mistakes when you’re using the fabric marker though, so don’t skip the pencil step! (note; it may not work on every fabric)
Once you’ve penciled everything in, go at it with your fabric marker! I found it easiest to use the stencil for the outline of each letter, and then remove the stencil to fill the letters in.
The Sharpie fabric marker packaging didn’t say anything about heat setting the ink, but I ironed mine out before i washed it. Seemed to work!


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