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How To Make a Holiday Pillow Cover with Heat Transfer Vinyl

December 16, 2020 By: Katiecomment

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Decorate for the holidays with a festive Chillin’ with my Gnomies throw pillow. Below is the complete Holiday Pillow Cover Tutorial!

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Fairfield World. All opinions are my own because I love giving you helpful tutorials!

Yay! It is the holidays and that means crafting and creating in all sorts of fun holiday ways.

Have you seen all of the fun holiday items with gnomes on them? They are so stinkin’ cute! So I decided to join in on this gnome fun and create a gnome svg file that you can use too!

You can find the file in my Etsy Shop as well as a lot of other SVG files I design.

Chillin Gnomies SVG

More Cricut Craft Tutorials:

The Cricut is our very favorite crafting tool, so naturally, we have shared lots of Cricut tutorials. Like these Metal Tag Ornaments, this Winter Wooden Door Tag Hanger, and this Tic Tac Snowman Poop.

Be sure to look around the blog for more Christmas craft tutorial ideas!

Supplies You’ll Need to Create this Project:

This post contains affiliate links.

  • Fairfield World 20 inch Pillow Insert – use code pillowpartyKatie for 20% off your order from 12/8 – 1/31/2021
  • 18 inch Pillow Cover
  • Cricut Cutting Machine
  • Chillin’ with my Gnomies SVG File
  • White, Red and Black Heat Transfer Vinyl
  • Weeding Tools
  • Cricut EasyPress
supplies used for Gnomies Holiday Pillow Cover

Craft Tutorial Video:

Cut the File in Cricut Design Space:

Open the SVG file in Cricut Design Space.

We are creating with a 20 inch pillow, so for mine, I sized the design as large as I could make it, which is 11.5 x 11.5 inches. This is a vertical design, but I stretched the design to make it square. As you can see it doesn’t effect the design much at all.

screen shot of cricut design space

The file comes with a couple different layers so you have a lot of options when creating with this design. But we don’t need them all.

Delete the black plaid hat layer, and weld the beard and snow layer.

Place the iron-on shiny side down on a cutting mat, and make sure you click on Mirror Image on each layer before you begin the cut.

Follow the prompts in Cricut Design Space to cut the image out.

I cut on a Cricut Explore Air2 but you could also cut this out on the Cricut Maker.

the cricut cutting the design out of heat transfer vinyl

Once the image is cut, weed the excess iron-on vinyl from the backing sheet. Don’t forget to remove the center of the letters!

weeding the heat transfer vinyl

Applying the Design to the Pillow Cover:

Using the Cricut Heat Guide, figure the temperature and time needed to apply the iron-on design.

cricut heat guide for EasyPress settings

While the EasyPress is preheating let’s talk about the layers of the design. For this Gnomies design, we need to apply the layers in a certain order so everything is stacked corecctly.

The order we will go in is white, black, red, and last pink for the noses.

To find the center of the white design, lightly fold the white layer together and crease the center goin both ways.

folding the heat transfer vinyl to find the center of the design

Create a center crease on the pillow cover as well. Folding in half in both directions and ironing the center crease down.

Align the center crease on the white heat transfer layer and the pillow cover.

Press into place.

applying the heat transfer vinyl with a Cricut EasyPress

Once cooled, removed the plastic backing sheet from the iron-on.

Next, align the black layer using the white beards as your guide.

layering the heat transfer vinyl

Once in place, press with the Easy Press. Let cool and remove backing sheet.

Next is the red layer. Line this layer up using the plaid in the hats and the black hats already pressed.

layering the heat transfer vinyl

Press into place and let cool before peeling back the plastic sheet.

Last is the the little pink noses.

layering the heat transfer vinyl

Press into place and again, let everything cool before the backing sheet is removed.

the finished Gnomies Holiday Pillow Cover

Stuff the Fairfield Pillow insert into the pillow cover and your cute Chillin’ with my Gnomies pillow is ready for the couch!

Gnomies Holiday Pillow Cover

You may have noticed that we used an 18-inch pillow cover and a 20-inch pillow. You want to use a case that is a bit smaller than the pillow so that the pillow is nice and fluffy. A case that is the same size as the pillow can look flat.

Gnomies Holiday Pillow Cover

When you make this Chillin’ with my Gnomies throw pillow please share a photo! We’d love to see it.

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Yield: 1 Pillow

How To Make a Holiday Pillow Cover with Heat Transfer Vinyl

Gnomies Holiday Pillow Cover 16

Decorate for the holidays with a festive Chillin' with my Gnomies throw pillow.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Active Time 30 minutes
Additional Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Difficulty Moderate
Estimated Cost $45

Materials

  • 20-inch Fairfield Pillow Insert
  • 18-inch Pillow Cover
  • Red, White, Black, and Pink Heat Transfer Vinyl
  • Chillin' with my Gnomies SVG

Tools

  • Cricut Cutting Machine
  • Weeding Tools
  • Cricut EasyPress

Instructions

    Cut the File in Cricut Design Space:

    1. Open the SVG file in Cricut Design Space.
    2. Sized the design to fit your project.
    3. Delete the black plaid hat layer, and weld the beard and snow layer.
    4. Place the iron-on shiny side down on a cutting mat, and make sure you click on Mirror Image on each layer before you begin the cut.
    5. Follow the prompts in Cricut Design Space to cut the image out.
    6. Weed the iron-on vinyl from the backing sheet. Don't forget to remove the center of the letters!

    Applying the Design to the Pillow Cover:

    1. Using the Cricut Heat Guide, figure the temperature and time needed to apply the iron-on design.
    2. Find the center of the white layer, lightly fold the white layer together, and crease the center going both ways.
    3. Create a center crease on the pillow cover as well. Folding in half in both directions and ironing the center crease down.
    4. Align the center crease on the white heat transfer layer and the pillow cover.
    5. Press into place. Once cooled, removed the plastic backing sheet from the iron-on.
    6. Align the black layer using the white beards as your guide.
    7. Once in place, press with the Easy Press. Let cool and remove the backing sheet.
    8. Line the red layer up using the plaid in the hats and the black hats already pressed.
    9. Press into place and let cool before peeling back the plastic sheet.
    10. Press the last pink into place and let everything cool before the backing sheet is removed.
    11. Stuff the Fairfield Pillow insert into the pillow cover and your cute Chillin' with my Gnomies pillow is ready for the couch!
    © Katie Adams
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