1. You can coordinate the design details in your home.
   They are more hygienic than commercially made pillows.
2. You can start a new business at home by selling them.

When you stencil your own pillow designs, you can apply several techniques in many ways and harmonize the details in your home. You can also create new themes and designs.

1. 8 to 10 inches square
   12 to 14 inches square
2. 16 to 18 inches square

These stencil designs are designated for toss or throw pillows, which generally measure 12 to 14 inches square.

1. a type of religion
   a type of breakfast cereal
2. a type of fabric

Muslin is a thin fabric that is used in the pillow stencil designs.

1. with a paper shield
   with plastic wrap
2. with masking tape

Before you begin stenciling, make a shield to protect the sunflower petals by tracing or stenciling the outline of the sunflower onto a piece of cardstock or thick paper. You then cut out the shield and set it aside.

1. because it adds shading
   because you can wash it off
2. because they are the same color with a different name

If some of the Amber paint gets on the Yellow petals, it provides nice shading. In any case, you will be shading the lower left and center of the petals with Bark Brown.

1. a 5/8-inch brush
   a 3/8-inch brush
2. a 3/4-inch brush

Use a 5/8-inch stencil brush to fill in the leaves, with Garden Green acrylic paint.

1. a disappearing marking pen and a permanent marker
   a needle and thread
2. a pen and pencil

To add script to the design, use a disappearing marking pen to write the word SUNFLOWER repeatedly. Then trace over the words with brown permanent marker.

1. Glue on small pieces of thread.
   Draw dashes with a marker.
2. Sew the border of the pillow by hand.

To add faux stitching around a design, take a ruler and draw a set of dashed lines against it with a marker.

1. Spray the cardboard with repositionable stencil adhesive.
   Sew the muslin to the cardboard.
2. Use straight pins or paper clips to attach the muslin to the cardboard

Before you begin to stencil, spray the cardboard square lightly with repositionable stencil adhesive. Then put the muslin on the cardboard, and smooth it onto the sticky surface.

1. You sew it on.
   You iron it on.
2. You glue it on.

Once you have completed the stencil design on the muslin square, iron the muslin onto a square of iron-on adhesive. Then iron the muslin onto the pillow.

1. squares
   circles
2. diamonds

While squares are repeated in a checkerboard pattern and circles make up a polka dot design, diamonds are forever in a plaid pattern.

1. masking tape
   adhesive tape
2. painter’s tape

When making the Plaid Pillow stencil, measure and mark the plaid border areas, and then tape them off with painter's tape.

1. flowers
   ducks
2. teapots

A garden of colorful flowers is stenciled between the upper and lower bands of plaid.

1. fabric medium
   water
2. sealer

To stencil onto any type of fabric, you must add fabric medium to the acrylic paint. It is recommended to follow the manufacturer's instructions to know just how to do that.

1. They are things that bears like to eat.
   They are images in the pillow design.
2. They are names of the paint colors.

They are the names of the Plaid FolkArt acrylic paint to be used for the design. The other colors for this stencil are Navy Blue, Turner's Yellow and Lipstick Red.

1. the center of the umbrella
   the outer edges of the umbrella
2. the handle of the umbrella

You should stipple lightly in the center of the umbrella in Navy Blue, but paint more heavily around the outer edges.

1. Iron it.
   Steam it with a kettle.
2. Place it on a radiator.

After the paint is dry, put a clean cloth over the design and run an iron over it to heat-set the paint.

1. one-quarter of it
   half of it
2. all of it

You stencil half the design. After the paint dries, you turn the stencil over and line it up to stencil the other half of the design.

1. from the center
   from the right-hand corner
2. from the left-hand corner

To get a more precise look when you are working on one side of the design square, start in the middle rather than at a corner.

1. half an inch
   one inch
2. two inches

You should stencil the stripes to within one inch of the edge of the cushion.