Harry Potter Pillow

Here's to my first ever blog post! Yay! Today I thought we'd do a bit of a fun and creative D.I.Y to suit bedrooms, lounge rooms, whatever!

So a while back I made a Harry Potter pillow in the holidays.  This pillow should cost nothing at all as I have only used materials I found around the house that nobody no longer needed.

So above is the final product.  I've gone for more of a rectangular shaped Harry but a cute square shape would also work really nicely.  The materials you will need are:

- a white pillow case, I have gone for a pillow protector as I like the feel of them compared to regular cotton. 

- an old pillow or stuffing, I've gone for an old rectangular pillow

- black material, the size of your pillow will determine how much of this you will need.  I have used 2 old black shirts rather than buying new material.  

- yellow material, again this was a shirt

- red material, I would advise you not to do what I did and use red crosshatch stuff I found in my crafts box as this looks really dodgy.  

- a black permanent marker

- black foam, usually found as packaging in fragile parcels.  

The majority of the stitching was done by hand as I feel more comfortable doing it this way as when I was twelve, the sewing machine needle went through my thumb.... owiee! However, this could be done using a sewing machine too, just don't ask me how this is done. Haha......  The picture above is pretty much self explanatory, however I'll break it down poorly in a couple of steps.

1.  If  your pillow case isn't made to fit your pillow, then make it fit and put this over the pillow.  The tighter the fit the better as you don't want him fat and floppy.

2.  Cut Harry's hairline out of the material and stitch it onto the pillow case all the way along the cut lines.  I will attach what the back of  the hairline looks like at the end of this post.

3. For the cloak I pretty much just made a little pouch Harry can sit in and sewed it in a few places around the top.

4. Cut squares of the yellow and red material, stitch them together to make a scarf.  I made my scarf so it on'y covers the front.  Then stitch it into place.

5. Cut circles out of foam and stitch them on for his eyes, the placement of his eyes does not matter, however I've put mine to the side.

6.  Take a marker and draw on his scar and glasses.  And voila!

I managed to terribly step you through making this cute Harry Potter pillow.  You could even make Hermione and Ron! They look absolutely stunning and really bring a nerdy atmosphere to the room!

If you do make one, #wailanidiy to instagram and twitter so I can see!

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