- 1). Iron your shirt to smooth wrinkles, on a setting appropriate for the fabric type. If your T-shirt is cotton, use a medium-high heat setting.
- 2). Measure and draw the cut lines on your shirt with a fabric pen, a measuring tape and a straight edge. Measure and mark on both sides of the shirt. Mark the lines in a square or rectangle within the body, or large area, of the shirt.
- 3). Cut along your lines with sewing scissors to remove both the front and back panels.
- 4). Cut a strip of another fabric 2 inches wide and as long as all four sides of the T-shirt panels added together.
- 5). Place your front T-shirt panel face-down over the table and place the sashing fabric strip over one of the edges--overlapping the edge of the shirt--with the cut edges matching up, rather than one covering the other.
- 6). Sew the strip onto the panel face-down, with needle and thread or a sewing machine. Sew them together 1/4 inch away from the cut edges.
- 7). Bend the sashing strip as you sew, to sew it along the edges all the way around the panel. Smooth the strips as you sew to keep the stitching straight, though the sashing will pucker slightly as it's bent around corners. The result should look like a shallow fabric box, with the sashing strip sticking upward a bit.
- 8). Lay the second fabric panel, face down, over the stuck-up edges of sashing. Sew the edges of the panel to the sashing, 1/4 inch from the edge, with the front sides of both the T-shirt panel and the sashing strip facing each other. Stop sewing when you have three sides sewn together and one left open.
- 9). Turn the pillow right-side out so the front of the fabric is facing outward. Stuff cotton batting into the opening until the pillow is full.
- 10
Tuck in the edges of the sashing strip and T-shirt panel about 1/8 inch and pinch them together. Sew along the pinched area to close the pillow.
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