No-Sew Ballard Inspired Joyeux Noël Pillow

Here’s my latest project…my Ballard inspired Joyeux Noël pillow! I’m happy to get this one in under the wire this year because it was on my to do list for this Christmas!

And here is my inspiration from Ballard Designs! I fell in love immediately, but it was $69 (on sale right now for $49) and that’s just out of my price range! Sooo…I knew I had to copy it…with one exception…I wanted red and white French ticking instead of black. I love the look, but it just doesn’t say Christmas to me!

Here is what you will need:

• Purchased plain pillow cover (mine came from Hobby Lobby)
• Pillow insert (Mine was down and came from Goodwill for $3.00.)
• Scraps of Christmas-y fabric
• Ribbon for the bow
• Iron-on transfer paper (I use Avery brand for light fabrics.)
• Hot glue gun
  

Here’s what you will do:

1. Print the text (included for you in the next photo) on iron-on transfer paper. Apply it to the bottom portion of the front of your purchased pillow cover according to directions on the package.
2. Draw a triangle for the tree and then cut it into six segments as a pattern, using scraps from three different fabrics. Pin the fabric in place on the pillow. My tree is a little bigger than theirs since theirs seemed small to me.
3. Hot-glue the fabric down using small dots of glue in several places.
4. Tie knots on either end of a length of twine and place on top of the fabric pieces, hot-gluing in place.

Here’s the graphic for the wording. It must be printed as is…backwards…on the iron-on transfer paper. It will be right side up once it is in place. I printed it in 8x10 format with Photoscape.

Finally, I added a little bow on top! Now just pop in your pillow form and you are finished! Total money spent…none…since I already had everything I needed ! Sooo…it was free…woo hoo!…instead of their $49 on sale! Love it!

Of course, my handsome co-host had to check it out. Hmmm…I see that he is double-checking my spelling and accent marks! No worries, Baby Kitty, it’s correct! :-)

And there you have it…my Ballard inspired Joyeux Noël pillow! Whew! Time is flying by and I still have a few more projects to squeeze in. Will I make it? Time will tell!

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