As some of you may know I live in France in the beautiful region of Deux Sevres, and this is the first of my contributions to the regions English language magazine, the Deux Sevres Monthly.

I will be writing a creative article for the magazine each month and I wanted my first contribution to be simple, colourful and fun! Each of the articles will also be here on my blog along with any free patterns and downloads.

This is a great project for teaching young people to sew, I started sewing as a very young child and my favourite thing to make was a tiny mouse. I used any scraps of fabric I could find to make them and the mice were all called ‘Grub Street’ . They lived in a match box! Sewing is a fantastic skill to have and how wonderful it is to teach a child to sew! These pillows are very popular in the USA now and children leave them out for the tooth fairy.

All you need to gather together is…

And you will need access to…

Here is a detailed PDF download that contains the pattern and all the making instructions!

JUST CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PATTERN & DETAILED MAKING GUIDE

monster pillow learn to sew instructions and pattern

I would love to see your creations so please e-mail them to me and I will publish them!

If you have any questions at all then please just ask, I am always happy to help!

I hope to see you next month for another ‘creative’ project and if you have any requests then please let me know what you would like to see.

Happy Sewing,

Nicola