Glow In The Dark Animal Ear Pillows

Embroidered animal ear pillows give you cute ears at bedtime!

Posted by Cat Morley

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I love animal ears, so when Sublime Stitching sent me one of their new transfer pens and some glow-in-the-dark thread to test out, I couldn't resist embroidering our pillows with cat and bear ears. Now we look like cute little critters while we're sleeping!

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You Will Need (10 things)

  • 2 Plain Pillowcase s
  • Sublime Stitching Transfer Pen
  • Tracing Paper
  • Embroidery Hoop
  • Silver or grey Embroidery Thread
  • Sparkly silver Embroidery Thread
  • Glow In The Dark Thread
  • Embroidery Needle
  • Scissors
  • Iron

Steps (11 steps, 240 minutes)

  1. 1

    Plan out your design on a piece of paper and then trace on to tracing paper with a transfer pen.

  2. 2

    I cheated by tracing half of the design, folding my paper in half and then tracing the other side through the paper so it would be identical.

  3. 3

    Iron your designs onto your pillowcases.

  4. 4

    Remove the tracing paper to reveal the image.

  5. 5

    All set to sew? Pop your pillowcases in an embroidery hoop and thread your needle with grey or silver thread.

  6. 6

    Knot the thread at the back and start stitching, wrapping yarn around the whole design.

  7. 7

    Keep going until you've filled in the whole design.

  8. 8

    Now thread your needle with sparkly silver embroidery floss and stitch on top of your previous design, leaving a little gap in between each stitch so that the original grey still shows through.

  9. 9

    Finally outline the ears with glow-in-the-dark thread.

  10. 10

    Cut off any loose thread and give your pillowcases a good iron.

  11. 11

    Pop on your pillows and wait until it goes dark!