Sew Some Cute Fleece Gravestone Pillows for Halloween

Here’s a fun Halloween decoration you can make for your house. It’s a fleece gravestone pillow. A Girl and a Glue Gun has a tutorial and free cut file you can use to make one (or several). These would be so cute sitting on a front porch bench or swing! They’d also make fun Halloween accents for a living room sofa or side chair.

These fleece gravestone versions are a softer fluffier version of the fake gravestones you see people decorating their yards with at Halloween. You know, the ones that are either Styrofoam or painted wood, with funny Halloween puns in the names or phrases painted on the fake headstones. But you’ll find these fleece gravestones on a bench or a sofa rather than scattered around the yard.

The free pattern at A Girl and a Glue Gun includes cut files with 6 different designs with cute Halloween puns. Or use the blank headstone cut files and add your own text with your cut file software. There are also free cut files with favorite phrases from Harry Potter, Hocus Pocus, Clue, BeetleJuice, and one from Haunted Mansion.

All you need is some gray or gray/white fleece, a bag of stuffing, and then some Heat Transfer Vinyl to add the headstone details. There’s no actual sewing pattern needed. The cut files serve as the pattern. Just apply the Heat Transfer Vinyl to the fleece, and then cut around the HTV design to get your headstone shape. Easy peasy.

The only difficult part of this project is deciding which of the cute headstone designs you want to use!

Go to A Girl and a Glue Gun for the sewing tutorial and free cut file. The free cut file comes in SVG, PNF, JPEG, and DXF formats.

[photo credit: A Girl and a Glue Gun]

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It doesn’t matter whether you sew by hand or by machine, you need a pincushion. You need a spot to parks pins and needles and keep them within easy reach for when you need them again. There are a lot of styles of pincushion to choose from. Some magnetic, some fabric. Some cute, some purely functional. This “little bit extra” pincushion has a spot to store all the different types of pins and needles you might need while sewing. Polka Dot Chair has a free sewing pattern you can use to make one for yourself.

This handy little pincushion has a circular shape and is divided into sections to store different types of pins. The bottom section is for your regular straight pins. Just poke them in and they’re ready for when you need them. The top has one section with a felt flap perfect for holding your sewing needles. I don’t know about you but I don’t like mixing my hand sewing needles in with my pins on a pincushion. It makes it hard to find the needle when I want it. So having a separate section for the needles is a great idea.

This “little bit extra” pincushion also has a spot to hold a few fabric clips. Fabric clips have become popular alternatives to a traditional straight pin. They hold fabric pieces together without piercing the fabric, which is important when sewing leather, vinyl, or other materials that will show permanent holes from pins.

You can sew the “little bit extra” pincushion from large fabric scraps or small fabric cuts (fat eighth). You probably already have all the supplies you need to sew one in your sewing supplies already.

Get the free pattern for this “little bit extra” pincushion over at Polka Dot Chair.

[photo credit: Polka Dot Chair]

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