Three Trees

Christmas is coming, which means cuddling up and reading one of my favorite books: “Tale of the Three Trees.”  I love this story so much that I’ve incorporated the theme into my Christmas decorating! Meet my “Three Trees” pillow with sassy ball-fringe trim! (Pattern available for download here.)

Whenever I use cotton fabrics for a pillow cover, I always use the HeatnBond Non-Woven Fusible Feather Weight interfacing to add a bit of stability to the fabric. Today, I’m going to show you how easy it is to add to your projects!

According to pattern instructions, I’ve cut out my pillow-top and back pieces from the cotton fabric. Now, I pre-heat my iron to a medium heat setting with steam.  On my ironing board, I have laid down my piece of interfacing so that the “rough” side is facing up. I lay down my pillow-top piece onto the interfacing so that the “wrong” side of the fabric will fuse to the interfacing. Next, I iron over the entire pillow-top area, holding the iron in place about ten seconds at a time.

Once the pillow-top piece is fused, I repeat this step to the remaining back pieces for the pillow.  Once all pieces have cooled, I trim away the excess interfacing.

And that’s it! You can proceed to the next step of the pattern!  It hardly takes any time to add this step to your favorite pillow cover project, yet you are left with a much more crisp-looking result.

Merry Christmas!