Sew Some Cute Fleece Gravestone Pillows for Halloween

October 13, 2024 by Anne Weaver Leave a Comment

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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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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