Gross Anatomy {Or A Halloween Pillow}

I’ve been wanting to make a pillow for my son and finally got to it the other day.  The only thing I had to buy was the pillow form and I used a 12 x 16 for this one.  I decided to use some left over drop cloth material for this pillow and two images that I had saved from Karen at The Graphics Fairy.

As many of you know, my son graduated from college in June with a degree in Athletic Training.  He is now in Pennsylvania pursuing his Masters in Athletic Training.  One of the classes he had to take was Gross Anatomy.  When he explained the class to me, I had to give him a lot of credit for dealing with that.  Anyway, I thought this pillow would be fun to help commemorate that class for him {although, I’m sure he will never forget it!}.

I was able to use a portion of the drop cloth that was hemmed, but for the other sides that were not, after I ironed on the images, I turned over the seams and ironed them.  Then I sewed those on the machine with white thread.

I wanted to put this pillow together with right sides facing out so I chose a black thread to sew it up.  I tried to take a close up shot of the stitch pattern I chose.  I thought it looked like a heart rate that you might see on a monitor.  I know, it is sad how I amuse myself {or worrying}.

I like how the black thread gives some interest to the pillow as opposed to if I had just used white thread.

Typical for my pillows in recent years, it is reversible so either side can really be considered the “front”.  He can flip it to suit his mood.  Because of the images, it can also be considered a Halloween pillow!

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