I went to Joanne Fabrics and pick up a plane cotton fabric and a pretty patterned fabric. I also decided this time to buy the pillow form but you do not have to. Here are the instructions that I followed.
Supplies:
Fabric
Paint(I use fabric paint, whatever works on fabric should work for you)
Freezer Paper
Hobby Knife
Iron
Some sort of sponge brush
Something to stencil ( I designed mine but there is a TON of stuff on the web and clipart)
1. Find yourself a stencil. You can draw directly on the freezer paper (sticky side down of course), or use a stencil someone else made. I have not tried but I heard you can cut the freezer paper down to 8.5" x 11" and run it through your printer. Will need to print on the non waxy side.
2. One of the great things about freezer paper is that you don't have to worry about islands. Since you're ironing on the design, you can just place any white bits that aren't connected to the main part of the stencil.
3.Heat up your iron, and lay out your fabric. You will also want to iron your fabric as well. Position the stencil on the fabric, waxy side down, placing any islands in their respective positions. Now press the iron flat down on each section of the fabric for a good 10-15 seconds. Poke the paper to make sure it's firmly on, you may have to go back over it, but the better that stuff sticks, the crisper the lines will turn out.
4. Now apply your paint. I would advise using as little paint as necessary to get whatever effect you're after. Heavy coats of paint on shirts tends to be uncomfortable. Take care while painting so as not to pull up the paper. I usually give my shirts a day or so to dry completely. I added a second coat to this one to give a nice dark finish. You can you this stencil more then once but you must be careful when pulling it off the fabric.
5. Then just sew your pillow together and you have it! I plan on doing more of these!
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