Pillow Pals - Community Service Project

While we enjoy making quilted items for our community service (big surprise there, huh?), we also create in other ways, using these projects to brighten up the lives of others. This year our community service project didn't involve quilting, but it did involve something that all quilters have: fabric!

We were introduced to Pillow Pals by Gloria Stermer, who thought that these would make a quick and easy project. And it was quick and easy. It really only takes about a half hour to put one together and then maybe another half hour to put the pillow in the fabric "pal," and sew it up.

They're so easy to make. You need two 14.5-inch squares for the body, scraps for the eyes, nose, mouth, arms and legs, a few bits of fibrefill for the limbs, and a 14-inch square pillow form for the body.

Gloria modelling the latest in Pillow Pal innards. 

 The before and after:

 Hard at work:

 Sharon introducing one of the Pillow Pals:

And a couple waiting to be sewn up at the top and then they can join their friends who are waiting for them:

Thank you to everyone who is helping make these delightful stuffed toys for children who will love them.