Personalized Bolster Pillow

I have been wanting to make my daughter new covers for her bolster pillows on her daybed.

I have been wanting to make her a personalized bolster, but hadn't really come up with any inspiration as to what exactly I wanted to do.

It's funny how inspiration can really come from anywhere.  Yesterday I went shopping at my favorite clothing store (and BTW did extremely well - they were having a 30% Friends and Family sale).  As soon as the sales girl handed me the bag I found my inspiration.

I started by taking a white sheet and cutting it to the right size.  For a full tutorial on how to make a bolster pillow click here.  I then went onto my computer and on Word printed out my daughter's name in a nice font in the largest size that would still fit on a piece of legal size paper.  I then laid the sheet over the paper.  You can see that the sheet was see-through enough to copy the letters.

Using a metallic paint pen, I simply copied the letters.

So if you were wondering what the Loft bag had to do with any of this...the grey grosgrain ribbon was my jumping off point.  I loved it and thought is would be the perfect trim for the bolster.

It was easy to take off the bag...only had to remove one knot.  It was a little wrinkled, though.  I didn't feel like taking out the iron, so instead I used my flat iron.   It heats up almost immediately and in less than 30 seconds it was all ironed out.

I love how this came out.  I am very into grey right now, and to me grey is a neutral.

As another alternative to closing the end of the bolster, I used a set of my daughter's pony tail holders.

I also made her another bolster cover for the other side with her middle name.  Seriously, this was so easy and I had everything in the house already.  This was another "free" project (if you don't count the cost of the clothes - LOL).

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Let me know what you think.  I always love hearing from you.

-Judy