LIVE! Easy Sew: Cute and Colorful Pillows - Week 3

Hello, national sewing circle. It's Emily Steffen, and I am here to teach you the third week of our four-part "Easy sew cute and colorful pillow" mini series we did. The first week we did, I have what we did. We did a tassel pillow. These are all little tassels. Last week, we did our rainbow pillow with some palms. This week we're gonna continue on the palm train and do a... My daughter was so excited about this one. So she had this little pillow. This is an ice cream cone pillow. How cute is this? For any kid's room or on your porch or anything. Add some color and some fun and some whimsy. If you don't know who I am. I started with sewing circle by doing the also easy sewing challenge. I did eight pizza pouch and some easy napkins, some fabric napkins. And now I am here with this third installment of this pillow series. So the instructions for all four of these pillows are available for you. If you're watching on YouTube and Facebook the click for the instructions is in the little video description right below. If you're watching on our site, it'll be in the chat. So let us know where you're tuning in from. Let us know if you have any questions chat along as we're sewing and as we're making today. Let's get started. So the biggest thing for this pillow is that it's so customizable and you don't, you... This is one of the four pillows that you don't need to sew. Now of course I'm going to encourage you to sew, but you don't need to sew. You could get your whistle wet with some of this crafting by just doing some hot glue if you really, really wanted to. But I would encourage you to break out your sewing machine. What you need for this project is... This is a really little pillow foam. But I have a 15 by six pillow foam. This is my outline or the cover that I'm gonna do today. And you'll find the size of your pillow either on the tag, or you can just measure it with a tape measure. So you'll need your pillow foam, the fabric for your cover. You're gonna need two colors of brownish or tan felt and that's gonna be for the cone. And then any yarn that you want for the palms the palm ice cream scoops. Some embroidery floss, scissors your sewing machine, of course, and palm makers or a piece of cardboard for palms. And I did... Just a little caveat. I did a Facebook live and the live video on how to make the perfect palm. 'Cause I wear palms as earrings. We have palm as accessories all over our house. So reference that video, go back and find that 'cause it has a lot of tips and tricks. I will share some today but that's a little bit more in-depth if you're feeling like you really wanna dive into your palm making skills. So first things first, I'm gonna tilt my camera down here for just a second here. First things first is I demo this really a lot more in depth on the very first video, the video with the tassels. So please go reference that and go find that for this full of how to do exactly how to make the pillow cover. I'm gonna show you, I'm just not gonna demo it today just 'cause we have other things I want to get to. But basically I don't wanna fuss with zippers when I'm making a pillow cover. So I have my front pillow shape which is this front piece right here which is not ironed to the perfect tee. But that's okay. And then I have two back panels that essentially overlay so that I can omit a zipper. So it goes like this. You see that. So basically these two back panels overlay each other and then I don't have to fuss with the zipper. If you wanna fuss with the zipper, please fuss with the zipper have fun, do what you need to with the zipper. But I find it so much easier to just do this way. And then it's easy to take it out 'cause you can wash your pillow cover easily in the washing machine. And it's just a lot easier. So essentially you're gonna measure your pillow make your cover one inch bigger on all four sides. And then on the two black panels, you will... This is a 15 by six. So my, excuse me, it's a 15 by six pillow. So this sizing that I have is a 16 by seven and then these back panels here. I cut a little bit weird just because I only had so much fabric left but essentially you'll see this here. But I have a four... This is a 3½ inch overlapping space. So it's that simple. You'll iron this little hand right here. Do a top stitch and then you're ready to embellish your front. So for today. So like I said, go back to that first video and I'll give you more in depth instructions. It's pretty straightforward and the instructions are also in the PDF that you'll download as well. But for today we're gonna work on our ice cream cone and ice cream scoops. So the ice cream cone is pretty simple here. Like I'm gonna show you here. It is a cute little cone with some scallops, really fun little kind of feminine design with the scallops but I love it. And it's kind of it has some depth and dimension to it, which I love. So essentially what we're gonna do is cut out our ice cream cone triangle. Just gonna grab my really sharp scissors here and cut out. And you can make this as big or as little. You can do multiple different ice cream cones on the pillow if you want to. So I'm gonna make a bigger one because my ice creaming or my pillow is a little bit big. So here's two things to keep in mind when you're cutting out your ice cream. A you have to know how big you wanna make your palms because you obviously do not want an ice cream scoop that is super wide 'cause you gonna have to make your pumps really wide knowing that you want your ice cream scoops or even ice cream cone. Your ice cream scoops go to the very edge of the column. So keep that in mind. You don't wanna make it super wide and you're gonna want to, I'm show you this really quick. You're going to want to curve the top of your ice cream scoop. Your ice cream cone just a little bit. Do you see that? Because obviously no ice cream scoop. My ice cream cone is exactly just perfect. This will just be the rough idea here. This is your base where you gonna sell your scallops on to? So then what I'll do, I'm going to alternate this color and this like tan color for the ice cream cone. You can make it whimsical. You can make a rainbow ice cream cone. You can make a purple ice cream cone. If anybody is local here in Minnesota there's an ice cream called Minnesota Nice cream and they have the most amazing colorful waffle cones. My kids find just awesome all the time. So here we go. I will start by... And some of this is a little bit based on how big you have your ice cream corn but I'm gonna start cutting by cutting an inch to inch and a half strips. And those will become the scallops. So it doesn't have to be straight and it doesn't have to be perfect. This is a project that with your supervision with scissors, of course you can totally do with your kiddos on a rainy day. Because I think that anytime we can give our kids the ability to make and be creative and craft it is so fun for their imagination and for their wonder and it helps them, you know, get some fine motor skills of course. I'm doing the same with this brown color as well. So essentially you'll want strips. I alternated my scallops, tan brown, tan brown, tan brown. So a essentially I'm gonna alternate these strips. Oh yay. Jenna says, this is a fun project she can do with her granddaughters or grandkids this summer. I love that. My son was.. I was saying that last week that my son he's really into pompom making. I told him, Oh next week you can be on live with me make some pompoms. So I told him next morning he could come. And he was like, no, no, he got shy. But I am a firm believer that pompoms and tassels are one of the most fun things for kids to make. So we have our strips really easy. This is gonna be where can come and really fun with fine motor skills for kiddos. And let me just say this too, I'm using felt. And the reason I'm using felt is because, A, I love the textural quality felt but also I really love that it's a substrate that you can cut. You don't have to finish on the edges. Like you can just cut it. We can cut our scallops and we don't have to hem it or sew it or search the corners, which I really, really love. And I think that makes it more of a fun, immediate project, especially for kids. So I'm gonna scale up just, you know they don't have to be perfect. You can make your scalps as big or as wide or as long as you wanna make them. And I'm just gonna scallop this whole piece and then I'll cut it to length across where I want it to be on my ice cream cone. I think anytime you can add food into a project instantly. I love it more and kids love it more. I hope I'm not the only one. Okay. So here. Scalloped my piece, just like this. Oh, Jenna says she used my pompom video to make a bunch for her niece to play with. That is the other thing that's really fun about pompoms is using those. It's a fun thing for kids just to play with. You can play toss into an old clean X-Box. You can have a fake fight across the house with pompoms. The sky is the limit. So I'm gonna do the same with all three of these. And I'll just do a few so you can get the idea, but this would be really fun. Now that I sent it out loud to make, to use instead of alternating brown and tan. You could make rainbow a rainbow color which would be really fun. And you can make this to match the kids room. You can make it to match your living room colors. I am a firm believer that the more color the better and to not shy away. So you will start at the very bottom. I laid this on the top, but you'll start at the very bottom. And it'll probably be one scale and you'll wanna lay this in what I would say, a brick pattern. So you know, like how bricks are staggered, you know they staggered they overlap that the center scene. See how this is right here, how it overlaps. There's the one right here. And then this kind of falls. The one thing I don't wanna do is just lay them over top of each other so that they go like this. Which you could but I wanna lay them so that they go, like, a little I'm going backwards. So they go like that. Let's see that. So here, I'm just gonna start laying this out. And if you wanna pin these in places you sew, you are more than welcome to, but I'm just gonna start laying them out and then trimming them to the very edges of this column right here. So I'll go like this. And I'm okay if I'm cutting off a little bit of my scallop. For now, I'm just gonna trim the scallops. And then after I sew them, I will trim them even more to this ice cream coneshape. So you can just begin to lay this out. So I'm laying it out and I'm putting these on here. This isn't quite big enough. So I'm gonna cut some more scallops. I'll do a few more layers and then I'll show you how to tack it on. The thing with felt is that you have to have a very sharp scissors. That was the one thing I learned early. So that's probably why it is essential to supervise kiddos as they're doing this. Any older kiddo would probably be fine, but some of the younger kiddos as they are not aware of the scissors. It can be tricky. So I'm just laying this out to get a general idea of how I want it to go. And of course, as you're laying it out you can adjust the size of your scallops if you want to because we may find, Oh, I want something bigger. I want something smaller. But as you can see, I'm just laying them on here. So you just to get the scalar pattern. Jenna just asked for the projects. When you know you need to pin off. Oh, okay Jenna, here's the thing. That's a super good question. When do you need to pin in and when you don't need to pin? That's it. That is an age old question that I'm sure many people have an opinion about. I never pinned, which I maybe should not admit. I feel like if you're doing something very precise like quilting or where you need something exactly perfect in a corner or an angle, absolutely pin. If you're doing something that feels like it could bunch or move absolutely pin. This project I'm laying it out right now just to get it. So I know how many rows. And then you could pin before you saw these. The great thing about felt. This is gonna bring it back to the old ages of felt boards. If anybody knows what a felt board is, felt sticks to each other. Like it sticks, right? Like you don't... It doesn't stick like forever stick, but it sticks like you're kind of putting it in place, which I love. So for this project, I'm not gonna pin because it's gonna stick to each other and not super-duper move. And I'm also giving myself a leeway on the edges. You can see I'm not. I haven't trimmed that exactly close to this very edge that the cone is because I'm gonna sew it on first. Because it is likely that might shift or move just a little bit. And I think that, that is important for or you can give yourself some buffer if you will. So I've cut enough of these where I'm just gonna give you an idea of how you can sew. The thing with these, the column too is when I first was laying them out, I was laying them very wonky and very kind of haphazard and kind of diagonal. And that would be really fun especially if they're gonna be more than just a couple of colors, to lead them in a little bit different direction which will be really fun. So let me grab my sewing machine really quick here. All right. I am just going to do a straight stitch for these. So as you can see, I'll get the plugger in. I didn't wanna trip on my cords, so I didn't plug it in quite yet. I sew everything on this Janome, and I love it. And it's a work horse. It's a 9450 and it is one of my favorite things ever. It's so good. So I just have a off-white white thread in here. I love using ultimate colors of thread. So if you wanna stitch with a bright pink or a hot blue or a neon yellow do it. Because I think anytime you can add that fun detail, a kids will love it. And I think it's really fun and I love it. So I'm gonna take off my layers here and I'm gonna start with the bottom of scallop and work its way up. So all I'm doing is kind of top stitching or edge stitching. If you will, maybe not edge stitching cause it won't be so close. We'll just stitching right along this top right up here. Just so that it's tacking it down. And like I said, in the very beginning, if you are feeling very intimidated by your sewing machine I encourage you. This is an easy project to get started with but also it's not hard and you could get out your glue, your hot glue, if you really wanted to. Oh, Valerie says it looks like a mermaid tail. That is... All my stars you can make a mermaid tail pillow just like this. As a matter of fact, I was cutting out these scallops and I thought, wouldn't it be beautiful to do an entire pillow of like Andre scallops from the top to the bottom. That could fit in any little girl's little mermaid room. I just did a big mural project for my niece this spring before COVID hit. And we did, I cut out the stencil. It's like the mermaid scale stencil and I stenciled it. Put on her wall and then painted it gold. And then it was like different colors of purples and pinks. And I was... My little auntie heart just was soaring when she walked in and her eyes lit up. It was really fun. See, so simple. You're just hacking it right on the top. See so just right across the top, right there just a straight stitch. And then you're gonna go down where you can cut here and then just lay them on. Like I said, it doesn't felt sticks to felt. So I don't pin in this situation. This also would be a really fun project for Christmases. Last year, we just felt my son 'cause he's really good into sewing age. Janome fun colors It's like a bright teal sewing machine. And this will be a really fun project to get kids sewing. 'Cause it's straight stitches, It's unfelt, it's easy. It's something that it doesn't, they don't need to turn. It's just one thing cut, one thing cut, one thing cut. Used to be a really fun beginner sewing project. So I'm just gonna continue laying each scallop down and stitching it just right across the top. That's pretty simple. See no stay on the back. It's just one, two, three little rows of stitching. And like I said, if you really are feeling intimidated by your sewing machine you absolutely cannot do this. I'll do one more and then I'll demo the rest here. But... Now I have my mindset on what we can do for a little mermaid scallop below. That sounds really fun. You got my mind going. Okay, so you'll continue and obviously finish the entire column and if you're doing multiple columns, I'd suggest making all the columns at one time for your pillow because that's just gonna make it really easy. So this just gives you an idea how to do that. There's a quick demo. And then let me show you. So after I... So you have it all sewn right? And it's like I said, I have this extra, I wanted to give myself some buffer in case it got all removed. So I'm gonna take my scissors and I'm just gonna trim the sides. If you don't want to you absolutely don't have to. But now, oopsis there we go. Now it's trimmed up just to clean up those edges to make it more corn ish. So next step is the palms. And I'm gonna show you on the demo two different ways to make palms. Because I think it is so fun. Amina asks what is the best way to fill out the corners of your pillow. That is a... Wow, that's a really good question. I'm gonna show you at the very end of this video 'cause I'll show you how I put my pillow foam in and fluff it. Because I think that is kind of the trick how to sew the corners, cut the corners and then to fluff your pillow, to make it an exact corner. Really easy, I'll show you at the very beginning. John also says I just bought a Singer Pro. Do you have any beginners sewing machine tips? Yes, yes yes yes. Oh my gosh. I am so loving. I'm gonna turn this on my face. I'm so loving hearing all, everybody who has bought machines for making masks or because we're all home and we're wanting to pick up this project. I learned to sew from my mom at a really young age and I grew up kind of thinking everybody knew how to sew. And of course I got to college in high school and people were like, Oh, you made some pajama pants. And I thought, Oh that's something everybody knows how to make. And I love that people are picking it up again. Because it's a life skill that is so fun and so easy. So here are my, I would say it's three basic beginner tips. Just hear me out for two seconds here. And then we'll get back to the project. But my three tips are one, start. I know it's so intimidating. Like so intimidating to look at your sewing machine and go Oh my gosh, there's a hundred stitches. And I don't know what to do. Start with something simple. Start with one of these patterns. And even if you only wanna sell half of it and then use your hot glue gun to embellish the pillowtop. At least we'll get you comfortable. My second tip is... Okay, so on... When I teach my son to sew, we use... We try or we've used and I have them on my blog, which I can share. My blog is oastudio.com. And on my blog I have paper. You can print it off on your printer and this might be more for kids but I really think the technique is fun for adults. And it's patterns that you can sew on paper to get yourself using your sewing machine right? So you'll learn to turn corners, you'll learn to kind of zigzag. Because what you'll wanna learn this is probably the second tip. Is you wanna let your machine guide you. Because I think what people get frustrated by is they're pulling the fabric through the back of the machine and they're trying to make it work. And I think you just have to trust your machine and learn to kind of let it work for you. And it feels so weird. It's like when you drive a car for the first time and you're like, I'm gonna halt the brakes. It's so easy. And my third tip is, give yourself a project goal or a series of projects. And what I mean by that is, let's say you bought your sewing machine for making masks and you are like, Oh my gosh, I don't know what the heck. I have these ideas I wanna make. If you go on Pinterest or you've seen something in a store and you're like I wanna learn how to make that. Kind of look at the project components and see how you can learn those specific components. Like for instance, if you wanna learn to make a pillow think about, okay, how do I construct the pillow? How do I make the corners of the pillow? And how would I embellish the color? Those are three things that you can work up to to make your final goal. And I think when we pick things apart little by little, you'll look at the end result and go, Oh my gosh, it was not that hard. And that just gives you more confidence to keep going. So start small, learn to let the machine work for you and have trust in it. And then give yourself kind of some goals. Which I know this is a little tangent but I love to hear when people buy sewing machines. Because I 100% feel like it's one of those skills that you will carry on. And if our kiddos are watching us sew, it's something that you can get intrigued by and excited about. My goal for my son is to teach him how to make pajama pants by this Christmas. Because every Christmas we all have a pair of homemade pajama pants. My mom started that tradition and I've carried it on with my kids. And I hope that he... We're getting there. He gets... He sews for about 20 minutes. And then he's like off to doing his own thing. Which is fine. Which I'm embracing it as it comes So I know that was a little tangent, but okay. So Marianne just asks can you use the scallops to make a d... Yeah dinosaur pillow, Marianne. Now we have mermaids ice cream homes and dinosaur pillows. That would be really fun for this fun dinosaur tail or lizard tail or something you could the full dinosaur body and then have a big scallop tail. Yes, absolutely. This is the fun with felt is you can use the techniques of it because it's such an approachable, simple material. And if I could sew with felt my entire life, I would. As a matter of fact, next week's project has a lot of felt in it. Okay, so, sorry. I got a little distracted by that question. But the next step for the ice cream pillow is pompoms. You see my trustee caboodle. Please tell me that you had a caboodle At least know what a caboodle is. This is where I keep all my pompoms device. It's a doodle caboodle. So I was able to just love it. Valerie says, when I was in high school, I had to take sewing. I made a top and a skirt. Now thank God I'll ask my son if he wants to do that. Yes, there's so many so cute sewing machines out there that I love love love. Of course I had my son or I picked out the Teal sewing machine for my son. And I love it. It's really cute and really easy. All right, so if you have a pompom maker there's multiple sizes of pompoms. And when you look at the maker, roughly about the size of the pompom maker is the size of the finished palm that you will end up with roughly. I wanna go big because remember my ice cream column is this wide and I wanna make a pompom that fits about the size. Because you would never get an ice cream corn from an ice cream shop where they were this big. Now, if you were like gonna layer them all and like a hundred different pompoms, absolutely. But I wanna make like big scoops. So I'm gonna use my biggest pompom maker. And I'm gonna show you two different ways to make an ice cream scoop pompom. The first one is just a solid color which will be pretty easy. And the second one as it is I'm gonna show you how to make sprinkles for the top. I didn't do that on here because I thought about it after the fact. But I wanna show you. So let's just use our pink for example. I'm gonna tip this back down again. Does felt wash? That's a super good question. Yes. And you have to be careful, Wash it in cold water and never put it in the dryer, but felt does wash. If you are a knitter, you know that if you knit a swatch of fabric, to make it felted if you will. Where like melds or melts to each other to create something thick. You'd wash it in hot, hot, hot water and potentially dry it in hot or just continue washing in an agitated, hot, hot, hot water. So that's what you don't wanna do. If you already have the felted fabric. So just wash it in cold water, you could hand wash it. But you for sure can throw it in the washing machine. I have not had any troubles washing felt before at all. All right. So you know what? I'm gonna back up for a few seconds and just demo in a smaller palm just so it doesn't take so long. But for this project I would certainly use the biggest pompom that I have. So to make a solid palm, all you will do is wrap wrap wrap your yarn around in the most I would say evenly possible to fill in this entire half circle of yarn. And it is a project that, like I said kids can super have fun with. So while you're sewing, if you don't wanna teach your kid to sew yet, give them some yarn and have them dream what their ice cream scoops would be. This obviously would be like a raspberry sorbet flavor, obviously. So I think that they could then come up with a pretty fun narrative of your ice cream if you want to. So you're just gonna rap, rap, rap as even as you can. Back and forth without going over these knobs here. Do you see how there's like these knobs right here. If you don't have a palm maker you can do this exact same thing on a piece of cardboard. And I demo that in the palm perfect palm video that we did about a month ago, a month and a half ago maybe. All right, good girl. This is also palms and tassels are a good way to use up all the random yarn you have on your round. And they're really fun just to do in front of a video. So if you have a rainy movie night and you wanna do something fun with your kids while you're kind of watching a movie that you've seen a hundred times. Just take the pompom makers, make some tassels, get messy and have fun. So do you see how it filled in. This would be like, yap its how it is. See how it was originally this half circle and then like filled it all in by going back and forth. That's all you're gonna wanna do. You gotta clip and shove it right back in here. So now to make sprinkles on the top. You will take your... Misses the sprinkle idea, right? You're gonna take your main color of ice cream. So raspberry sorbet. And I wanna do pink, this is other pink sprinkles. And maybe I wanna do white sprinkles. Let's do two different colors of sprinkles shall we? Why not? Let's do. So I am taking our three colors just right here. All three colors. If you really, really want to, you could do two strands of the raspberry and then add another color. Because the raspberry color is essentially what you're, obviously think of an ice cream scoop. That's your main color. And then you'll add the others on top of that. But all you wanna do is wrap them all at the same time. So it makes it faster wrapping. 'Cause you're tripling your, your yarn. You'll go careful not to go with the edges. But... And there's no rhyme or reason to how you're holding them as long as you're holding them together. And then they'll get perfectly. Can fit in your perfectly sprinkled in between there. Wonder how to make a mint chocolate chip scoop. Well here, this is how you make a mint chocolate chip. Just like this. I would do two mint colors. Two of the mint. We obviously have mint done here and then do like one ground or one black string. So think of how many you'd want for the main color? And then add those other two colors on there. And chocolate chip is a good refreshing. We were just in an ice cream place this weekend and my daughter can't have dairy and they had carrot mango and it was so good. I had a... It's not the taste. So right. And you'll want only oopsies. You want only the top part of your scoop obviously to have your sprinkles on it. Because when you're sprinkling... I mean, you could do the whole scoop if you don't want to but it feels like it makes a little bit more sense just at the top. So this is you and your sprinkles and then your main color of the bottom. And I'm just going to use a little chasm, a little a hole right in the pompom maker is what I'm looking for right here. Clip it. Sharp scissors are key to a lot of crafting. Let's see now we have it speckled and then at the bottom, clip this. There we go. So the bottom is raspberry, the top is sprinkles. Now I'm gonna grab some embroidery floss. And you can just do something that is similar in color. It doesn't have to be exact because quite frankly you won't see much of it. I like converted floss because it's stronger than if you're just using yarn. Some people swear by it. I just used this tip last time and I've tried it and it was actually amazing. Actually dental floss. And it's awesome because it does not budge 'cause it's wax coated and I love it. There's no excuse for dental floss in my house. So you'll want to have, you know, a chunk that's a... This is probably a foot. A foot and a half. Sheal asks where can we get pompom makers. These pompom makers are Clover brand. And you can find a set of all the sizes on Amazon at Joanne's at Michael's. They're usually in a set of variety set and they're all different colors. So you can see the colors of what you're making. There're Clover brand C-L-O-V-E-R. I don't think I've seen any others besides Clover brand. So you're gonna thread your inverted floss through this chasm that we just cut through the hole, I don't know, lane? I don't know what you call it. And when you're tight. Nice and tight. And my tip for tying tight is when you tie it in the map and then you're gonna bring it to the other side and tie it again. Because you wanna get it as tight as possible. And do that two or three times before you take it out. And you wanna leave your tails long enough that you can thread a needle through this to be able to attach it. So don't tie it so many times that it's so, so so so short. 'Cause that will not work. All right. All right here we go. So last one time you make a square knot. Now, if you tuned into my last pompom class I know exactly my biggest and best tip for you that I hope you walk away from. If you're learning how to do pompoms is this, trim your pompom before you take it out of the pompom trimer. Because the key to knitted pompom is the tail cut that you give. And by that, I mean, it's how much you trim it. So I'll just take it out like this. It's kind of wonky on the edges but any good pompom is gonna be a nice tight ball. However, for these ice cream scoops you want them to be a little bit more like Scooby, you know cause they wanna lay on top of each other. So like I'm going to trim them before you take it out of the pompom I'm gonna trim it just a little bit differently. So I'm gonna trim my bottom and this would be the same when you're trimming on before you take it out of the pompom trimmer, pompom maker. You just follow the edge of your pompom. Nice sharp pair of scissors is the key I'm telling you. Sharp scissors is the key to a lot of things in crafting. And then right here, trim this top part. 'Cause what this is essentially doing is you're gonna have to trim it no matter what. But this has given you a really good pre-trim if you will. So that you don't have to just kind of figure out how to cut a circle out of a giant massive yarn. Right? Okay. So then you take it out. All right. So the one thing here, so fluff it up. The one thing is I'm going to flatten this side and this side just a little bit. So see how the top there's sprinkles and the bottom does it. So like we shoved some sprinkles on top. I'm gonna flatten, well, let take this back. Think about the order in which you want your palms to be. All right. Just think about the order in which you want them to be on the pillow. The top one will probably be perfectly curved but these other two, you know when you're scooping ice cream you're gonna squish them out. So see how this one is squished a little bit. This one is squished, this one is squished. So maybe just think about where you want your palm to be. And all you're gonna do is trim accordingly. So I'm gonna trim off. Just trim my bottom, more flattish. You see that. So I'm just kind of trimming the bottom part a little bit so that it makes sense that you're not just putting balls on your pillow. And you can trim it however you want to. You can make them perfect circle if you really want to. But you just kind of go through and kind of trim it as you see fit. See, you know, ice cream, scoop pompom. And if I were to have two strands of this raspberry color and then add the pink in. The light pink and the white. It probably would have looked a little bit more sporadic but I also really liked how fun and colorful that is too. 'Cause you know, just shook some sprinkles on top. That's the basic idea. Make as many palms or as little palms as you want. So basically to finish the pillow. What you're going to do is... I need to find my pillow front which is, oh here. You can either add glue or I'm gonna make two for this, for my daughter's room. Here we go. Two little ice creams that are kind of running into each other. 'Cause this is a bigger pillow. You will stitch around the edge or hot glue it. And then I'm gonna take embroidery needle and put it through one side, put, excuse me, let me back up. Take embroidery needle, thread it on the side, string it through to the other side of the pillow. Taking embroidery needle thread it through this one and thread it through this other pillow and then tie your palm on here. And it's upside down, Tie your palm on there. So essentially you're gonna start building your scoops up tall. Now to answer the question before of how do I get perfect corners on my pillow? I'm gonna show you one thing really quickly and then showed you how I stuff the pillow. So I'm not gonna... I'm gonna finish this in a little bit 'cause I don't wanna make more ice cream scoops for my daughter. But to get perfect corners. There's two things here. I'm just gonna give... I'm gonna grab a... I'll cut this in half and show you. Just to give you a little demo. So to make your corners on your pillow, let's just say these are your pillow right. You're gonna stuff your tiny little pillow in here. Essentially you're gonna... I'll show you how to get there. But I'm gonna explain first. You gonna run your stitch here, put your needle down, lift up your presser foot and turn and then run your stitch. What that'll do is it's gonna pivot walk, pivot. So your machine is leaving the needle there and continuing the stitch without lifting anything else up. So let me show me really quickly how to take care of that. And it's very easy. This is how I craft you guys. I have stuff everywhere all the time. And I know I'm not alone here. There are people I know that craft just as messy as I do. That's okay. Okay, so run the stitch needle down presser foot up run the stitch. Let me show you that. I'm just gonna start right here. Lowering everything down. There you can see now. Running your stitch. Tiny moments later of a bobbin thread because I am. I'm running my stitch here. And I tilt it to just about the edge. And all I'm gonna do is lift up my presser foot. And my needle is still down in my fabric. My machine is set so that my needle stays down unless I lift it. If for some reason your needle lifts, all you have to do is use your side wheel right over here. And turn it to make sure your needle stays that down. 'Cause look, I can move this entire thing because my needle is still down right? And then I just lower my pressor foot either with my hands or with that button that I just used. And then continue to go straight. Right? Okay. So I'll show you that in the actual pillow. So you see you have a nice edge. It's kind of hard to see with that. 'Cause my thread is the exact same color as this. So let me show you exactly how that looks on the pillow. And then the second step before I show you, is you're gonna click the edges. So when you have a corner like this, you obviously will have your seam allowance on the edge. When you try to flip that out. So you have your corner, try to flip that out. All of this fabric right here is just gonna get super bunchy. If you don't just trim it away. So all you do is trim it without clipping your actual seam. And that is what's gonna give you... I'm using my scissors, which I know a lot of people really fear. Oh don't do that. That's gonna give you pretty damn good corner, right? Because you're taking away all that excess in that. So it's a pretty easy corner. You could iron this and make it even more cornered if you really want to. Now when I'm stuffing my pillows, does that makes sense. If you've any questions please jot them in the comments. But it's a really easy way to get your corners nice and tight and nicely square. Now, when I'm stuffing a pillow, I'm gonna bring this up so I give you a full demo. When stuffing your pillow. Here's a little teaser. This is last week's pillow. I'll show you. I'm stuffing my pillow, I stuff them in. I'm gonna take it out so that it's full on. So have your pillow case the corners are here, here they are. This are my corners I've sealed it it's all done. Yay, hurray . And then I stuffed it in here. And I just do like a really easy stuff because it is. let me show you the trick. Given then you're right. You can work at this for a hundred years. All I do, just gonna be loud. 'Cause if you hit against something Look let me hit my leg. You hit it against something. Look at how perfect the corners are now. And the pillow is in all four courners. All you have to do is like fluff it and hit it. I know that seems like what the heck my grandma taught me how to do this. She just used to like beat it. Maybe she was like trying to get all the dust off. But look at... Look hello is filled in. In into this entire corner. You can just hit it against your leg. So my kids know that's what I'm doing. I flip my pillow. So, okay. If you have any additional questions jot them in the comments. Remember that the patterns for these instructions. If you're on YouTube and Facebook are the description below. If you're online in the website, they're in the banner. But next week... This is upside down. Next week is my favorite pillow. I'm gonna show you how to make this custom applicay. And I'll show you how to make the pattern for it depending on if you wanna write somebody's name or a word and then I'm gonna show you how I put it on, how I hear it. So I'm excited joined back next Thursday at 11:00 AM and we'll see you then. If you wanna follow along or check out any of those PDF patterns. Click on those links and you can find me @oastudio.com. Thanks for joining.