Pillows
 

I know some locals are doing piillows. Obviously we cant order it from the greek web since we are not national but we can make our own, you can buy a pillowcover or make one and add cut outs of letters in a cute fabric.......what do you think?? I know a lot of people give the pillows at the revealing of big sis

What my sorority does is for initiation, the little makes the Big a paddle, and the Big makes the little a pillow. I think they usually just buy fabric and make the letters and the pillow from scratch, with the exception of a few girls that are severely sewing- challenged and buy premade pillows and just decorate them with puffy paint letters and what not (something definitely tells me that this semester when I get a little, I'll be in that second category:rolleyes:). If you wanted to buy a pillow, stores like www.GreekGiftsEtc.com and www.JoeToga.com will make either pillows or handpainted pillowcases custom made for locals. I think it's better to have Bigs make pillows though because it shows more time and effort that went into them.

yea i agree with daisyklp- i'm a local and we do pillows- but we get premade once and cut out letters- or if you go to an ebroidery store or soemthing you can sometimes bring them fabric and get letters that are sticky on the bacdk and you just put them on the pillow and outline in puffy paint- or you can just do puffy paint... and then put a poem or something on the back about sisterhood and stuff- ihave like 4 pillows and i've made like 5- they are super easy- but if you aren't good wtih puffy paint- practice on other stuff first- scraps of fabric- paper- etc and its also nice if you have a nice style of writing tha tyou can decorate with- like swirly letters or soemthing- i always doodle on my notebooks/papers at school (yea- i don't get much done in class lol) and that gives me ideas for new styles of writing or flowers- i also love doing stars- in like silver glitter or something- always classy- hope taht helps- and i'm pretty crafty with otehr stuff so if you need basket ideas or wahtever- PM me:)

We also give pillowcases to our littles the night before initation for their sleepover. We always hand make ours. You can just buy fabric and then buy this double sided adhiesive type fabric that will attach when ironed. What I did was first attach it to the fabric I was going to use then cut out our letters then iron those to the pillow case. I decorated the rest with craft paint and puffy paint. I'm not very artistic so I usually made templates off of the computer for what I put on it. Hope that helps!

WE used to ( Now I feel old) we used to get the sorors to sign our pillows and then we would stitch their signatures with colored thread , and then put the whole pillow together and it was sooo pretty and it usually turned out farily well.