Video: How to Make a Heart-Shaped Pillow with Cuddle® Minky Fabric (& Free Pattern)

Everyone needs a little love now and then!

This week, for Sew Together Tuesday, our National Educator Teresa Coates is stopping by Mulqueen Sewing & Fabric Center in Tempe, Ariz., to share her tips on how to sew a super cute heart-shaped pillow using Luxe Cuddle® minky plush fabrics.

The approximate finished size is 16” by 20”, but can be scaled up or down as you see fit. It looks especially great with classic embroidered candy heart sayings on the front (we’re thinking “love bug”, “soul mate”, “me & you”, etc.).

This pillow is just the thing for those young, and young at heart — happy sewing!

Recommended fabrics and notions for sewing a heart-shaped pillow

These products can be substituted for whatever you have on hand, but here is what Teresa recommends for her “Young at Heart Pillow” tutorial:

Fabric Requirements:

1/2 yard Luxe Cuddle® Shaggy Rosewater
1/2 yard Luxe Cuddle® Frosted Hide Rosewater

Notions & Supplies:

90/14 stretch machine needle —SCHMETZ
Basting spray — ODIF 505 Spray
Craft knife — OLFA
Fabric clips — Clover
Felt tip marker or ballpoint pen
Hand sewing needle — SCHMETZ
Iron for applique — Oliso
Long, flower head pins — Clover
Micro-serrated scissors — Karen Kay Buckley, Famore or Kai
Point turner — Clover
Polyester filling for stuffing— Fairfield World
Polyester thread —Metrosene by Mettler
Quilters Dream Poly Request — Quilters Dream Batting
Rotary cutter and mat —OLFA
Walking foot

Free Download: Heart-shaped pillow sewing pattern

Click here or the “Download Now!” button below to download and print Teresa’s Free “Young at Heart Pillow” sewing pattern. Click here to download the applique letters.

Video: How to make a heart-shaped pillow with Cuddle®

Mark your calendar — for the fourth episode of Season 8 of Sew Together Tuesday, Teresa will be going LIVE on the Shannon Fabrics Facebook page and YouTube channel at 10 am PDT on January 25 to share her tips on how to sew a heart-shaped pillow with Cuddle® minky plush fabric.

Can't make it? Check back here after her live video concludes for the embedded on-demand video.

If you have any questions about Cuddle® minky plush fabrics or any of our Cuddle® Kits, feel free to contact our friendly, no-pressure customer service team at 866-624-5252.

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