"It's a Girl" Silk Baby Pillows

These simple silk screen printed, "It's a Girl" Silk Baby pillows are an easy way to create some expensive looking custom baby pillow slip covers on a small budget! They make a wonderful homemade baby gift.

These simple "It's a Girl" Silk Baby silk screen pillows also make a great homemade baby girl gift you can easily make.

Silk printing is a great way to make a lot of prints on your silk baby pillow fabric from one piece of art.

You do need a large open work surface to create silkscreen art, but beyond that, the rest for the materials are generally affordable and easy to find at any art supply store.

To make your Silk Screen Printed Custom "It's a Girl" Silk Baby Pillow Covers you will need:

Solid colored silk fabric

Newspaper
Pre Made Silk-screen

Exacto Knife
Squeegee
Vellum
Pencil
Painter's tape
Design
Fabric paint

No Sew (optional)

Sewing Machine (optional)

The first step is to draw the desired Custom "It's a Girl!" design on vellum. You could also transfer your design by placing vellum over the Custom Baby Girl design and tracing it with a pencil.

For ease you could print out your "Its a Girl!" out on your computer in a pretty font. Print them out to size and trace onto the vellum.

You can easily see through vellum by placing it on a lighted artist tables or even in a window when there is daylight outside to shine through.

I like to use a script or girly font for the silk baby pillows. You can complete these designs in one step since there is only one color.

Now, if your Custom "It's a Girl" Silk Baby silk screen printing pillow cover design is going to have more than one color then you will need to have more than one screen. Basically, you use one silk screen for each pastel color.

Tip: Beginners may find it easier to start out only making one color and one silk screen.

Now, Cut out the "It's a Girl" Baby designs on each piece of vellum with a sharp craft knife. Sort of think of this like creating a stencil.

Now, you need to attach the vellum design to the back of the silk-screen with painter's tape.

You can buy pre made silk screens at the art supply store. You could also build yours out of wood.