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Glow In The Dark Animal Ear Pillows

Embroidered animal ear pillows give you cute ears at bedtime!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/glow-in-the-dark-animal-ear-pillows • Posted by Cat Morley

I love animal ears, so when Sublime Stitching sent me one of their new transfer pens and some glow-in-the-dark thread to test out, I couldn't resist embroidering our pillows with cat and bear ears. Now we look like cute little critters while we're sleeping!

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

4 h 00

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
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Description

I love animal ears, so when Sublime Stitching sent me one of their new transfer pens and some glow-in-the-dark thread to test out, I couldn't resist embroidering our pillows with cat and bear ears. Now we look like cute little critters while we're sleeping!

Instructions

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    Plan out your design on a piece of paper and then trace on to tracing paper with a transfer pen.

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    I cheated by tracing half of the design, folding my paper in half and then tracing the other side through the paper so it would be identical.

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    Iron your designs onto your pillowcases.

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    Remove the tracing paper to reveal the image.

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    All set to sew? Pop your pillowcases in an embroidery hoop and thread your needle with grey or silver thread.

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    Knot the thread at the back and start stitching, wrapping yarn around the whole design.

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    Keep going until you've filled in the whole design.

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    Now thread your needle with sparkly silver embroidery floss and stitch on top of your previous design, leaving a little gap in between each stitch so that the original grey still shows through.

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    Finally outline the ears with glow-in-the-dark thread.

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    Cut off any loose thread and give your pillowcases a good iron.

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    Pop on your pillows and wait until it goes dark!