Come, Mommy

A few posts back I promised to show you all some pictures of Liam’s Tooth Fairy pillow when I finished it and actually found the cable to the camera. Well, I found the cable so here we go. These aren’t the best pictures – I just got some quick shots of the pillow and didn’t really try to make the pictures look pretty, but you’ll get the idea of how I made it.

If you remember, Liam wants to be a “motorcycle policeman” when he grows up, so I wanted to make a police-themed pillow. I found some flannel with police cars and fire engines on it at the fabric store. It also had some some words like ” police” and “heroes”. I cut some of the pictures and words out. I then made the pillow from part of the leg of Kevin’s old jeans – basically a tube that I sewed closed on each end and then stuffed with wool roving.  Finally, I used dyed strands of wool roving needle-felted around the pictures and words to “applique” the flannel to the denim.

Here is a close-up view of  the “applique” work with the felted roving.

Here is the pocket for the tooth. I used the watch pocket from Kevin’s jeans and needle-felt-appliqued it to the denim.

So all-in-all, I’m pleased with the pillow. I wanted Liam’s pillow to be something from both Kevin and me, so I have that with Kevin’s jeans and my needlework. It’s definitely not the usual Tooth Fairy pillow you see for sale, but so many of those are obviously intended for little girls, and not for boys who have recently begun to shun anything too frilly or cutesy. When I gave it to Liam he recognized immediately that it was made from Daddy’s jeans, and he loved all the police stuff on it. Every morning when I go to wake him up for school, he picks up the pillow, kisses it, and says, “Thank you for my pillow, Mommy!”

That just makes me smile all over – such little things give children so much happiness. And now we are fully prepared for the first loose tooth!!