If you don’t know how to embroider you can easily learn or you can hire someone else to do the embroidering for you. You will need a few things to create your embroidered pillow. To begin you will need an embroidery hoop. They come in a variety of sizes, the smaller ones are much easier to manage, especially for beginners.

Secondly you will need to find a pattern. Depending on how you are going to personalize your baby pillow you can find patterns for letters, to add the baby’s name, as well as numbers for weight and birthdate. You can also get patterns for cute animals or just about any other design you can think of. You might want to check with the new parents and find out what the theme of the nursery is going to be. You could then make a personalized baby pillow to match the nursery.

You will also have to decide the colors for your project and get the appropriate colors of embroidery thread. Embroidery thread comes with more than one strand of thread together. Your pattern will tell you how many strands you are supposed to use for each part of the overall picture. If you only need two strands you just gently pull them apart. You will most likely begin with a strand of about 20 inches. This will give you enough thread and still be manageable.

You then embroider your design on the pillow. What material your pillow is made of is completely up to you. Many decorative pillows are made of satin, but you can find or make small pillows from any material you can find. Just remember your personalized baby pillow is more for decorative purposes as infants should not have pillows in their cribs.

Here is a video that will show you exactly how to get started. You can apply the techniques she shows you to your personalized baby pillow.