Poinsettia Pillow #Christmas

Sometimes you see something in a store catalog that you love, and just wish it was a different color. That's what happened for me with this poinsettia pillow!

I started out by making a simple pillow cover from blue fabric, to fit a pillow I already had.

It's just a fold-over back, so there's no zipper to worry about, no piping, nothing tricky.

Then I also had white felt, white crochet yarn and small jingle bells.

I cut out the poinsettia petal shapes and sewed long stitches down the middle. Then, by pulling on the yarn a little, it made the felt scrunch up a little and gave each petal a great texture. A knot at the end keeps it in place.

Finally, layer and hot glue all the petals together. Sew a cluster of bells to the center of the flower and then glue the whole flower to the pillow cover. I hope you'll come check out all the rest of the details at the link below, including a DOWNLOAD for the petal template.

Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/11320362/poinsettia-pillow site