Sew a Scrappy Patchwork Black Cat Pillow

October 24, 2024 by Anne Weaver Leave a Comment

If you love scrappy sewing projects, I’ve got a great Halloween sewing project to share with you today. This scrappy black cat throw pillow over at Therm O Web makes use of your black and orange fabric scraps to make an adorable Halloween throw pillow.

As a pet owner of 4 black cats, I’m partial to any sewing project that features a black cat. What I love about this pillow, beside it being a black cat, is that the patchwork design doesn’t require any complicated cutting or piecing. The majority of the design is made with simple squares, with a few half square triangles thrown in to help create the cat shape.

If you don’t have the scraps in your remnant stash already, you can easily get enough squares from a handful of fat quarters. I’m always up for a reason to buy a few more fabrics for my stash, lol. Blenders and single color prints will work best for this project.

The other thing I love about this project is that, while it was obviously designed for Halloween, you can make this a pillow for all year just by switching out the colors. Of course iIn our home filled with black cats, we don’t limit ourselves to Halloween for the black cat décor. It’s black cats all year at our house!

But if you own cats other than black cats, you can easily make the cat on this pillow look like the cats living in your own home just by changing up the colors you use for the kitty shape. A white kitty, gray kitty, orange kitty, or even use multiple colors to make a tuxedo or calico cat.

The project is designed by Deb Zeleski for Therm O Web. Go to the Them O Web blog for the project tutorial and free pattern.

[photo credit: Therm O Web]

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DIY Kids Gingerbread House Bag with Free Pattern

I am just smitten with this felt gingerbread house bag. This would make such a sweet special Christmas accessory for a kid. It’s a free pattern at Benzie Design, designed by Gracie from Hello Gracie Makes. It’s packed with adorable gingerbread house details, like swirls and stripes and scallops adoring the doors and windows.

And while all those details might seem like this would be a complicated pattern, it’s actually not. The bag itself is made from felt, which makes finishes edges unnecessary. (All of those scalloped edges are just cut from felt, no edge finishing required.) The strap is super simple, made from rope with knotted ends. And all those details are made with some basic hand embroidery stitches. Sparkle felt makes it extra cute.

The striped scallop roof is actually the top flap of the bag. A magnetic snap makes it a secure closure. The rope straps are attached through felt loops at the side of the bag.

They rate this project as an intermediate level, and it should take about 6 hours to make start to finish. That’s doable for a Saturday project or a couple of evenings. Full color photos step you through the entire process.

The project includes a shopping list for all of your supplies. They’ve got a shop so you can order all of them from Benzie if you like and get exactly the supplies used in the project. I noticed it includes a pair of scallop shears, which makes cutting all the scalloped edges for the roof and around the door a breeze.

Finished dimensions of the little felt gingerbread bag are approximately 6 ½” wide x 7 ½” tall. That’s the perfect size to hold a small book, a small toy, or a notepad and some cute pens.

Go to Benzie Design to get the tutorial and free pattern for the felt gingerbread house bag.

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