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Piggy Pillow Sewing Pattern

February 12, 2010 by Craft Passion 34 Comments

Sewing, Baby, Crafts, Home Decor, Intermediate, Kid, Valentine's Day

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As promised, I have completed the tutorial and the sewing pattern for the “Be My Valentine – Piggy Pillow”, which was published 3 weeks ago. This time I made a pair of  Be My Valentine Piggy Pillow for my kids. They love it.

piggy pillow sewing pattern

You may not be able to do it in time for this Valentine, but as I said, if you have love in you, every day is Valentine. I hope you sew the Piggy Pillow for your loved ones, whether it is Feb 14.

Besides making your loved ones happy by sewing items for them, sewing itself is good for our own mental health1. I particularly feel the satisfaction and accomplishment when finishing a project. I personally like to create beautiful things and share the designs with those who are interested for free. I hope my little effort will bring some happiness and hopes to the world.

Piggy Pillow Sewing Pattern

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This is the free sewing pattern and tutorial to make a 12″ x 10″ soft pillow in piggy shape. In this tutorial, I used 2 body towels to sew a pair of cute piggy pillows. However, you may use other materials to sew it, for example, plush, flannel, microfiber fabrics, etc. For the detail, scroll down to read more.

Besides sewing it full-size to make a small pillow, you can use this pig pattern to make it into other things. You can reduce the size and make a piggy pincushion or a stuffed pig. Talking about a stuffed pig, to make it even more interesting, put a magnet on the nose to make them kissing each other (Thanks to Jackie, who left a comment to suggest this). If you are an expert in sewing, how about challenging this pig pattern by altering it to a piggy bag for little children.

Be creative, the upshot is endless!!! Love it 🙂

My son loves the piggy pillows a lot, he even said: “Mom, one for che che (elder sister) and one for me ya!”. Immediately after giving him a YES answer, he hugs the pillow, kisses it, puffs and places it on the floor, and sleeps on it. So there, the 2 little piggy pillows go to my 2 lovely kids. Isn’t it happy to see them growing up with your handmade? I feel so delighted, and this also ignited my motivations and energy to design and create more handmade for them to growing up with.

Hope to see you sew something for your little ones soon.

For more free sewing patterns, especially stuffed animal, please visit my Sock Animal Free Patterns.

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Piggy Pillow Sewing Pattern

Piggy Pillow Sewing Pattern

Yield: 12″ Piggy Pillow
Active Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Avid Beginner/Intermediate
Estimated Cost: $3 - $10

This is the free sewing pattern and tutorial to make a 12" x 10" soft pillow in piggy shape. In this tutorial, I used 2 body towels to sew a pair of cute piggy pillows. However, you may use other materials to sew it, for example, plush, flannel, microfiber fabrics, etc.

Besides sewing it full-size to make a small pillow, you can use this sewing pattern to make it into other things. You can reduce the size and make a piggy pincushion or a stuffed piggy. Talking about stuffed piggy, to make it even more interesting, put a magnet on the nose to make them kissing each other. If you are an expert in sewing, how about challenging this pattern by altering it to a piggy bag for little children.

Enjoy sewing them!

Download and print separately: SEWING PATTERN

Materials

  • Soft body towels 27 1/2″ x 55″ (70cm x 140cm) – 2 pcs. of contrasting color (enough to make 4 piggy pillows)
  • Cotton fabric 27 1/2″ x 23″ (for 1 pillow) prefer higher thread count or quilting quality fabric
  • Embroidery floss (black or dark brown)
  • Poly-fill stuffing material
  • Sewing threads (matching colors)
  • 7 pcs. of Papers or cards (for the template printing)
  • Piggy Pillow Pattern Templates

Tools

  • Sewing machine
. You can also hand-sew, if you prefer
  • Long Sewing Needle (about 2″) and pins
  • Water Erasable Fabric Marker
  • Pen
  • Scissors
  • Blunt point tweezers or an awl
  • Printer

Instructions

HOW TO SEW PIGGY PILLOW

  1. Print Templates:
    Print out the 7 pages of Piggy Pillow PDF pattern of the piggy pillow. Piece page 2 to page 6 accordingly to get the full-size template.
    The template given has no seam allowance included. Add 1/4″ to 5/8″ while cutting out the fabric pieces to all parts except the Nose piece.
  2. Trace Templates:
    Trace the piggy pattern onto the cotton fabric with a pencil.
    Top, 1 piece
    Bottom, 1 piece
    Ears, 1 piece each
    Nose, 1 piece
  3. Cut Fabrics:
    Place 2 layers of towels right side together on a cotton fabric piece, then place the traced cotton piece on top. Pin them together.
    Use a contrasting color for the nose. And, use 1 layer of the original color with another layer of contrasting color for the ears.
    You can choose to have the same color for the tail, but I prefer using the same color as the body.
    Cut all pieces with a seam allowance of 1/4" to 5/8". No seam allowance is needed on the nose.
  4. Sewing:
    Sew all pieces according to the following instruction:
    a. Body-pieces - Stack the top piece on the bottom piece with the right sides together, align and pin. Sew from point A to A,
    b. Ear-pieces - sew from Point B to B,
    c. Tail-piece - fold the fabric piece along the long-side, then sew along the long side, followed by one of the short sides.
    d. Nose-piece - Sew running stitches near the nose piece's raw edges, pull the thread to gather.
    For body and ears pieces, clip the seam allowance near the sewing line; this will smooth the curved seams after turning inside out.


    Turn body, ear, and tail inside out.
    Trace the position of the eyes and ears on the body-piece, nostril on the nose-piece.

    Tie a knot at the tip (the close end) of the tail as shown (I have changed from pink to a blue tail), mark a length of 4″ from the tip.

    Turn the body right side in and position the tail on the top part of the body.
    Sew to seam the opening on the top part only.
    Turn the piggy right side out.

    Optional, embellish the body with a heart. Slip stitch it into position. Stuff some poly-fill before complete the sewing.
  5. Stuffing:
    Stuff the piggy body, ears, and nose with poly-fill to the fullness you prefer.
    Seam up the opening of the body and ears by using slip stitches.
  6. Assembly:
    Sew to attach the nose.
    With 4 strands of black embroidery floss, embroidery the eyes with stem stitches. Start from the marking of the ear, needle in. Needle-out at point 2, stem stitch by following the line till point 3, needle-in. Needle-out at point 4; that's the nostril marking. Continue to sew the nostril from point 4, followed by needle-in at the bottom end.
    Stitch the other nostril and eye, and end the stitching on the other ear.

    Pin and sew the ears on the markings. Cover up the knots of the brown or black floss on the embroideries.

    Press the ear toward the nose and stitch the around the ears.

Piggy Pillow is done!!!! I hope you like the Piggy Pillow as much as I do.pig pillow sewing pattern

Notes

Seam Allowance: Add 1/4″ to 5/8″ to the template.

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Comments

  1. Mary -

    December 16, 2018 at 1:18 am

    Body bottom pattern – Do I repeat the steps as shown for the body top ?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      December 16, 2018 at 10:25 pm

      Yes, trace the bottom with the bottom template.

      Reply
  2. Cucicucicoo -

    February 14, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    Super cute! A question: why do you use the woven cotton fabric? Is it to help keep the shape? 🙂 Lisa

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 15, 2015 at 1:25 am

      Hi Cucicucioo, the cotton will help to maintain the shape of the pillow but the main reason is to prevent the poly-stuffing from coming out especially if you are sewing it for little baby.

      Reply
  3. Alicia @ Felt With Love Designs -

    May 28, 2014 at 6:50 am

    Love these pillows! So cute!

    Reply
  4. Kerry -

    December 31, 2013 at 12:20 am

    I love it. Very cute.

    Reply
  5. dawn -

    April 22, 2013 at 5:28 am

    great !!!!! i love it!!!

    from: Dawna Paris
    Etsy Shop

    Reply
  6. trish -

    April 13, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    hi, i know this has been asked and answered but i’m still kinda lost about how you did the nose? i’m so sorry if i’m being annoying or smth… but this is my first time doing this project. hope you could help me. when you stitch around the nose then gathered it, it will be like pouch right??? ^^ THANK YOU.

    Reply
  7. PJ -

    July 18, 2012 at 7:57 am

    hey there! I loooove these!! they’re really cute! when i clicked on the print-out link, the adobe reader popped up. but how do I enlarge the picture? would mean a lot if u’d tell me! thank you!!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      July 18, 2012 at 10:26 am

      Some printers do come with enlarge printing to a certain size, for example, it will expand the document 4 times larger and split it into 4 papers printing. If yours don not have this option, perhaps you will need to print it out as normal size then enlarge it by using photocopier.

      Reply
  8. Dorothy Wenckowski -

    July 1, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    Hi Joanne,
    With your permission I would like to make, and donate, some of your piggy pillows for our local children’s hospital, I know the sick babies would love to cuddle up to something so colorful and soft.
    many regards
    Dorothy

    Reply
  9. Anika -

    February 21, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    Hi, thanks for this great tutorial! today i made the piggy pillow for a friend of mine and it turned out super cute!!! here are some pics:
    http://milo-in-my-mind.blogspot.com/2012/02/neue-kumpel.html

    anika

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 22, 2012 at 5:00 am

      Cute!!! Well done Anika 🙂

      Reply
  10. Baby Ear Infection -

    July 2, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    This is really a cute pillow. Pretty good color combination used. Maintain up the good function. Thanks for the tutorial.

    Reply
  11. Elizabeth -

    April 5, 2011 at 12:03 am

    Wow this is too too cute! TFS 🙂

    Reply
  12. Sara -

    November 20, 2010 at 6:07 am

    This is such a great one that i started making it straight away. its really cute so far but i have a quick question, or better said request, could you please elaborate on how you made the nose? i can’t quite understand what you did. thanks in advance.. 🙂

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      November 20, 2010 at 6:59 am

      Hi Sara, for the nose, just run the stitches around, pull to gather, stuff with poly-fill, pull again and tie. Position the nose onto the face and slip stitch it. 🙂

      Reply
  13. Katies Flower Pens -

    October 15, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    These pillows are so cute. Very creative!! You should check out my creations too. http://www.katiesflowerpens.com

    Reply
  14. CrochetN'Crafts -

    September 10, 2010 at 9:32 pm

    These are so adorable! I will definitely be making some of these piggies..thanks for the great pattern!

    Reply
  15. [email protected] -

    June 4, 2010 at 2:04 am

    So Sweet! Thanks for sharing … I’ve posted a link.

    Reply
  16. Deborah -

    June 3, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    SO cute. Would love to see cute piggies with wings, a la “flying pigs” — perhaps next time…?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      June 3, 2010 at 4:19 pm

      This is a good suggestion!!! I love it, yeah, will make 1 next time!!!! May be make a hanging flying pig baby mobile!!! Give me 5!!!

      Reply
  17. Tammy -

    May 3, 2010 at 2:30 am

    Adorable piggies 🙂

    Reply
  18. Annabelle -

    April 8, 2010 at 1:50 am

    How adorable! I’ve been wanting to start sewing … maybe this will be one of the first things I sew. Who knows?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      April 8, 2010 at 9:20 am

      have a try on it…. My son and daughter love them every much, so hugable 🙂

      Reply
  19. Christy -

    February 16, 2010 at 11:24 am

    EEkk! How adorable! I’m gonna make this asap! Thank you tons!!

    Reply
  20. Tif -

    February 16, 2010 at 5:24 am

    I will have to polish my (beginner) sewing skills a bit before I’m ready for these. But they are ADORABLE!!

    Reply
  21. Rachel -

    February 16, 2010 at 3:38 am

    Aww, this is so cute! I love them! Thanks so much, I’ll be linking.

    Reply
  22. Magda -

    February 15, 2010 at 2:43 am

    Hello! I’d like to tell you that I have linked you in my blog.
    Magda

    Reply
  23. Anne Weaver -

    February 14, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    These little guys are SOOO cute! I love the little heart patches on their piggy rear ends!

    I linked to your tutorial out on Craft Gossip Sewing:
    http://sewing.craftgossip.com/free-pattern-be-my-valentine-piggy-pillow/2010/02/14/

    –Anne

    Reply
  24. food-4tots -

    February 14, 2010 at 10:37 am

    祝你虎年龙精虎猛!万事如意!情人節快乐!

    Reply
  25. Gargi -

    February 13, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    Thanks a ton for a wonderful project with a simple tutorial. I can’t wait to make a pair for me. 🙂

    Reply
  26. Doris -

    February 13, 2010 at 6:29 am

    Hola: Precioso el almohadon Muchas gracias por el tutorial excelente paso a paso
    lo entendi todo perfectamente.
    Besitos

    Translation (by Google):
    Hello Beautiful the cushion Many thanks for the excellent step by step tutorial
    I understood everything perfectly.
    Besitos

    Reply

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