Family Flower Pillow
Many, many months ago I ran across this image on Pinterest: Keepsake Hug Pillow "This is a great gift idea for grandparents", I thought to myself and I dutifully pinned it onto my craft ideas board. Perfect, because it can involve our entire family, because I have a giant stash of fabric and perfect because the final gift folds in a small envelope I can ship across the country. I don't however have a fancy sewing machine that would make nice neat letters and numbers, and as time went by I kept coming up with new ways to design our hand print pillows. We traced our hands onto a thick cardboard folder. I cut them out and then traced them onto Wunder Under. Ivory pealed he paper backing off of the fabric hand prints and I ironed them into place. While I sewed one, Sylvan paraded the other two around the house. Each of our hands a single petal of a flower. Red, orange and yellow thread added a little detail. And...