Bring fall indoors with these SUPER easy fall felt pillows. How easy you ask? You don’t even need a sewing machine to create a mountain of fall leaf pillows and there’s a good chance you have everything you need in your house right now.
These pillows make easy and fun fall crafts. It’s surprisingly easy to bring fall in your living room you’ll be jumping in piles of leaf pillows in no time.
You will need:
Standard size pillow case. I used an old standard size bed pillowcase.
Pillow insert, – these work better than stuffing because they create a smooth appearance for your pillows. You can buy them premade or simply chop a bed pillow to your desired size.
Felt scraps to cut leaves in fall colors the number you will need will depend on the design you choose. I used
Saddle Brown, Mustard, Egg Yolk, Hot Chocolate, Fresh Cut Grass, Autumn Leaves, Tangerine, Darkest Ruby, Chocolate, Poinsettia, Wine and Penny
Needle and thread.
First decide on a design you like, as you can see the options for this easy fall felt pillow are endless.
Cut the felt leaves from the leaf shaped pattern template. The number of leaves you will need depends upon the design you choose. If you need some tips on cutting small or difficult shapes check out THIS POST.
I am going to make the striped pillow case but they are all made in basically the same way. Stuff pillowcase with pillow and fold extra fabric behind the pillow for now.
Mark out where you want your design to be. For the circle shape you can trace a plate if needed but the leaves on this DIY fall decor hack are very forgiving if you want to wing it. 
Measure out a 3.5″ – 4″ past the end of your pillow and trim off the extra fabric. 
Lay out your leaves where you’d like them to be. Pin down if desired. Sew felt leaves down with a few stitches into each with a neutral color or consider using a few permanent markers. You can attempt this with the pillow in place with small shallow stitches or you can remove the case and sew then sew the felt leaves to your pillowcase.
Small stitches are fine the leaves will flop naturally so there is no need to sew each felt leaf shape down completely. Continue until your design is sewn down.
Fold cut edges of the pillow case inward and pin folded ends together. 
Overcast stitch along the side of the pillow with matching thread to close. 
And that’s all it takes to make a pile of felt fall leaf throw pillows.
Happy Crafting
~Andie
Who else is on the edge of their seats waiting for the first days of fall? I simply cannot wait for the cooler shorter days, the smell of a fireplace and an an added reason for a good cuddle. SIGH! Perhaps this fairy can help move things a long with a little fall magic. 🙂 
Mark face placement lightly on felt with a pencil. Add eyes with eye color embroidery thread and french knots. Stitch smile from a single length of pink embroidery thread and a nose with a single stitch of skin colored embroidery thread. 
Stitch torso to body shape stuffing as you go. Stitch closed along the stomach area.
Overcast stitch around the outside of the face, stuff as you go. Fit face onto neck and sew into place with matching thread. 
Add shoes to both sides of feet. Set doll aside. 
Sew bigger leaves to dress under the arm area with two or three longway stitches so the leaves can “poof” out along the dress, check to make sure dress sides are going the correct direction (mirror image front and back) before adding more leaves to the back in the same way you did the front. This will be covered up on both sides so thread color isn’t important.
Lay dress on either side of felt fairy puppet. Sew along the tops of the dress arms around the fairy’s body with an overcast stitch and matching thread.
Sew dress together along sides with an overcast stitch and matching thread. Leaving the bottom open for your finger.
Sew sunflower to secure, stitch through the torso and knot at the fairy back., you will cover the back with wings.
Overcast stitch the hair back and front together around the outer edges only with matching thread and an overcast stitch.
Fit fairy head into hair piece, attach small leaves in a ring around her head. 
Stack both wings so that there is glitter facing both ways and stitch through the center and torso of the puppet the knot can be hidden under the sunflower on the front of the fairy dress. Add flower sequins if desired.
Sew a loop and your finger puppet does double duty as an ornament.
Attach ribbon to one of each of the different colors of star shapes.
Overcast stitch the cloud together stuffing as you go.
Since most felt projects are rather small a standard ruler can handle most if not all your projects. This time of year you’ll usually see a great assortment of fun sizes, materials and themes. Stock up, now’s your chance to pick them up at a fraction of what they will be in 2 months.
For more tips on cutting with tape see our post on 
Tracing paper is a great low tech way to create pattern pieces. Trace each segment of a sketch for perfect patterns.
Ok this one is technically not so much for crafting as the actual craft. Treat your future self to some fancy fountain pens perfect for all those Christmas cards you’ll be firing off in a few months. A well timed back to school buy makes a bag of 24 as low as .33! INK PENS FOR EVERYONE!!!
Mark off your patterns standard chalkboard chalk. Standard white chalk is great for darker felts, it marks clearly and dusts off easily. When working with felt drag lightly across the felt you only want the chalk on the surface of the felt not ground into it. When you’re done simply tap or flick a few times to remove all traces. You can also remove with a wet wipe by dabbing lightly.
You can take it with you! Pencil pouches make the perfect home for your work in progress. Grab it on your way out the door and work on your craft during practices, pick ups and lessons. Look for a clear pouch to make finding your pieces a snap.
You have SO many options for the mountain back piece.
Best of all these beauties are no sew. Don’t pack up those plastic Easter eggs just yet, they play a key role in these Game of Thrones inspired dragon eggs as a stable base for the scales. 
You will need:
Cut
Start gluing scales down starting at the larger bottom end. Hot glue down as shown.
These little boho bunnies also make adorable kids room decor.
Fit fur felt into 4″ hoop and trim to fit
Stitch nose into place with brown thread and an applique stitch. 
Sew sides onto eyes with black embroidery thread and a running stitch. Stitch smile with the same thread. Set aside.
Stack daisy sides together and glue the center to hold. Glue pom poms into center if desired. Set aside.
Lay leaves and flowers down as desired and hot glue into place.
With white embroidery thread add a highlighting stitch to each eye. 
Glue bunny ears into place on the back.
