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This Fallout Vault Boy pillow will make your room S.P.E.C.I.A.L. too. This craft is easier than it looks! It combines iron-on felt with fabric paint, and a little bit of sewing to create a pillow that you won’t find anywhere else.

Here’s the tutorial video

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DIY Fallout Vault Boy Pillow

MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED

download the pattern
pillow form
a ruler or measuring tape
chalk or a white pencil
half a yard of black felt
blue, red, yellow and cream felt
iron on adhesive such as Heat-n-Bond
iron and ironing pad
black fabric paint
sewing machine
pins and scissors
If you don’t have a sewing machine you can sew this project by hand with a needle and black thread

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Cut the black fabric into two squares. Measure your pillow form and give yourself two extra inches all the way around.

Download and print out the pattern from craftymcfangirl.com. Cut out all of the colored pieces, trimming away the black border in between each piece. Leave the face and hand intact, there is no need to trim the black off of those two pieces.

Cut out each piece in its corresponding color of felt. Heat up your iron for this part. Start by ironing a piece of iron on adhesive to the felt. Trace all of the red pieces onto the paper backing of the iron on adhesive. Cut out all of the red pieces.

Repeat the process with the blue pattern pieces (iron on adhesive, trace, and cut). Repeat the process with the cream pattern pieces (iron on adhesive, trace, and cut). Repeat the process with the yellow pattern pieces (iron on adhesive, trace, and cut).

Peel the paper backing off of each piece of the Vault Boy and arrange the pieces centered on the black felt. Work slowly and carefully. Make any adjustments needed. You might need to trim pieces so that they fit together better. Once the backing is removed from all of the pieces, arrange them exactly as you want them to appear on the pillow. Work from the center outward.

Heat up your iron. Once you have the pieces perfectly positioned, iron the pieces down carefully. Place the hot iron directly on top of the pieces so they don’t get moved around. You only get one shot at getting this right.

Let the fabric cool down and then add the details to Vault Boy’s face. Using a print out of the pattern, place the paper over the fabric and trace the facial features onto the fabric with a pencil. Break through the paper as you draw.  This will give you a light pattern to follow with black fabric paint. Paint on the face. Use the same process to transfer the hand with pencil. Then paint on the hand details. Let the fabric paint dry completely before continuing.

Get your sewing machine or needle and thread ready. Put the plain black felt piece on top of the Vault Boy piece. Line up the edges, and sew around three sides of the square. Clip the two bottom corners off. Be careful not to clip any of your sewing, though. Then flip the edges inside and square up the corners. To give your pillowcase a nice finished edge, sew around the three stitched sides of the pillowcase.

Put your pillow form inside the pillowcase. Pin the open edge closed. Sew the pinned edge closed and remove the pins.

Optional Step: Add black fabric paint around all of the felt pieces to make sure none of the edges peel up.

Thanks for crafting with me. If you make a Vault Boy Pillow or any other Fallout-inspired craft leave me a comment and let me know, or tag a photo on Twitter or Instagram #geekymcfangirl or #craftymcfangirl. I’d love to see what you do!

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