I love making presents for Christmas, especially now that Miriam is old enough and skilled enough to help. I only wish I had remembered to take pictures of all the things we made! Here are some handprint pillows we made for the grandparents. I got the idea from cousin Rachel, who had forwarded a Pinterest link.
This pillow is for Nana, who, when I first started planning it, had 19 great-grandchildren and one little flower on the way -- by the time I finished it had expanded to four on the way! (for that reason I'm glad I didn't finish it before Christmas -- this way I was able to include everyone's Big News!)
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| tracing the handprint patterns |
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| embroidering the hands. I tried to use a different color for each hand. |
I tried to think of ways to fit all the hands on one side of a pillow, but it would have been chaos! This way I could organize them in family groups to help Nana keep track of who belongs to where.
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| what a clan! |
The completed pillow!
The pillow form I used is 20x20.
Apologies to all the cousins who have been waiting to see the end result. Hope it was worth the wait!
The grandparents on each side got a smaller pillow with just our kids' prints.
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| first sewing project ever! |
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| ta-da! |
