Our whole family loves Star Wars so I decided to sew some Star Wars quilts for our holiday trailer. I wanted to make "rag time" quilts and couldn't find any patterns that I liked, so I designed some. I made several different designs with the same number of blocks so that I could do a different design on each side. I started with R2-D2 and BB-8 and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
I like the "rag time" quilt style because it's simple and fun. I did 8" square blocks and 1" seam allowances. Instead of quilt batting inside the blocks, I used a square of flannel. For fabric, I used a mix of flannel, flannelette, and jersey (t-shirt material). I even cut up some old t-shirts to get all the colors that I wanted. You can also use other heavier fabrics like denim for these quilts.
You can use whatever colors/patterns you prefer for the "background" blocks. There are tonnes of different Star Wars fabrics available. I thought that a star print would be fun. I used a camo print for the background on the R2-D2 quilt that I made.
Here are the patterns that I came up with. Some use 88 blocks and some use 99 blocks. Feel free to use them to make your own quilts. I thought that these patterns would also work for perler beads, cross stitch, or even tile mosaics.
BB-8
R2-D2
X-WING
Poe's X-WING
Yoda
REBEL logo
Vader's TIE fighter
I'd love to hear what you think of these patterns and see pictures of your quilts. Are there any other characters/ships that you'd like me to attempt to make a pattern for?
Inspired by "Star Wars", I decided to give new life to an old throw pillow by making a Yoda cover for it. It turned out great, and now my son has a special pillow to use in his bed in our travel trailer.
This was a fun and easy project that kids could help with and would be perfect as a gift for a "Star Wars" fan or as an addition to a "Star Wars" themed bedroom or home theater.
SUPPLIES:
- pillow form or old throw pillow
- solid green fabric - any kind you like, large enough to cover the pillow plus ears and seam allowance (I used fleece)
- thread matching your fabric
- marker
- sewing notions, sewing machine, etc.
- Yoda photo or toy for reference
1. Lay out the fabric, double-layered and right-sides-together. Place your pillow on top. Draw a line on the fabric around the pillow approximately 1 inch from the sides of the pillow. Draw ears. (You can make a paper template if you want them to be perfectly even.)
Remove pillow. Pin fabric layers together. Sew around on the lines BUT NOT BETWEEN THE PILLOW AND THE EARS. Leave an opening at the bottom edge for turning and inserting pillow.
2. Trim the excess fabric and turn right side out.
3. Sew around inside the ears and between the ears and where the pillow will go.
If you really want to get creative, you could embroider Yoda's facial features on the pillow or draw them on with fabric markers. You could also write one of Yoda's quotes on the pillow, such as "Do or do not. There is no try."
4. Insert the pillow and sew the opening shut. DONE.
