Natalie lost her first tooth last week, much earlier than I remember Moira losing one. My crafty bug kicked in so I Googled “tooth fairy pillow” and, amongst the many many choices, I chose one I really liked from this site: mmmcrafts.blogspot.coml. I really loved the one she made with the crown and skirts but decided to keep it simple. A tooth with a smiley face is pretty cute as is!! The way it works is the tooth is placed in the mouth pocket in front. I added a pocket on the back of the tooth pillow so that the tooth fairy would have the option of leaving a larger treat if she wanted to.
I didn’t have it finished by the time carpool arrived but I had to bring it anyway to show Natalie! She was already majorly excited to have lost her first tooth so I don’t think the pillow made her much more excited……but I just thought it was so darn CUTE!
Here is a very small tutorial if you would like to make one also:
First, cut out your pieces. The pattern calls for both sides to be felt. I used fabric for the back.
Instead of gluing a rectangle off pink felt behind the mouth I chose to sew the mouth to a piece of the cream colored flannel (cutting a slit between the stitching for the opening). I then sewed a corresponding piece of pink flannel to the back of the cream piece. I thought this was an especially safe way to prevent the treasured tooth from getting lost inside the pillow.
I hand stitched the cheeks, buttons and eyebrows and also machine stitched the teeth onto the face. For the back I made a simple pocket out of one layer of patterned fabric. I sewed a small piece of Velcro under the top edge of the pocket, encasing the edge of the bit of ribbon that pokes out of the pocket.
After pinning the edges…
I stitched the two layers together and pinked the edges. Another modification I made from the original pattern was to leave an opening along one side of the tooth pillow, rather than a slit in the center of the back, to invert the pillow. I stuffed the pillow with natural wool roving, sewed up the opening, and gave it to my toothless grinning girl!
Thanks for the fabulous tutorial!! I love that it can hang on a bedpost and that it smiles at you!
PS – The tooth fairy found her tooth!