1632/365 - Doctor Who Tardis & Dalek Throw Pillow

Now that we're back from up north and I have a little more time, I wanted to finish working on the Doctor Who pillow I'd started earlier.

The original Tardis didn't come out so well, but it was an excellent learning opportunity.

I learned pretty quickly that the original setting I had were crappy but I didn't have to use a blanket stitch. I could still use the zig-zag stitch and not bunch things up (setting information below).

I soon started to get the hang of it, and while things are perfect, they're a lot better than Tardis #1.

Anyway, here's a slideshow of all of the steps, plus materials and measurements.

• Find an image to trace...

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• trace!

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  once traced, then cut out and get ready to iron...

  

• Ironing

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  with an iron, fuse the Heat n Bond Lite to the fabric

  

• cut everything out

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  once cool, cut out the shapes

  

• Lay everything out

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  to ensure it looks good and all the small pieces fit

  

• Iron On

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  remove paper backing and iron onto fabric

  

• Fuse-N Tear

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  once all pieces are ironed on, cool, flip over, and iron on Fuse-N Tear stabilizer

  

• Applique in progress

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  stitching all of the different pieces down

  

• laying everything out one last time

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  just to ensure everything still looks ok

  

• pin the pillow

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  pin the two pieces of fabric together, wrong side out

  

• Tardis side

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  Tardis side of the pillow

  

• upclose Tardis

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• Dalek side

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  Dalek side of the pillow

  

• up close Dalek

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Materials used:

• Fusible Heat 'n Bond Lite (adhesive)
• Pellon Fuse-N-Tear
• fabric and thread
• PolyFill (polyester fiber filling)

Measurements & Sewing Machine Settings:

• 14.5" x 14.5" pillow fabric
• 3" tall Dalek & Tardis 
• Applique pieces placed 3" from the edges of the fabric
• zig-zag stitch set to stitch width of 3.0 and stitch length of 0.2 for edges
• zig-zag stitch set to stitch width of 2.0 and stitch length of 0.2 for smaller detail pieces (like eggs on the Dalek skirt)