The Infamous Butt Pillow

I know that Christmas is over, and I've even taken down our tree and decorations already (which usually takes me until February to do). So, I'm pretty late on posting this, but I have to show off my fabulous handmade Christmas gift.

The butt pillow was a brilliant idea I had to give to my best friend Eve, with whom I have been determined to get a matching butt tattoo with for practically as many years as I've known her (10 years!). About 6 months ago we finally had the epiphany.  We will get half of a jagged heart each on my right and her left butt cheeks.  These hearts will have the letters "BE"/"FRI" and "ST"/"ENDS" inside them, and will be reminiscent of the 1990s best friends necklaces that spell out "Best Friends" when you put the two sides of the heart together.  Except we will be using our buttcheeks and mooning everyone who has the innocence to ask what's new with us. 

Eve is currently working on her Masters in Environmental Education up in northern Wisconsin, so I knew the butt pillow should be covered in soft warm fleece.  However, I'm not an expert seamstress of any kind, and assuming that I was not the first person to want to make a butt-shaped pillow, I decided to search the internet for a pattern of some kind.  I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find out that people with hemorrhoids have a lot of pillows to choose from.  I also found this variation on a butt pillow, called the Booty Pillow, which I found very amusing although totally inappropriate as a gift to my best heterosexual girl friend.  (Plus, what color thong would I choose for her?)

After a whole lot of unfruitful research, brainstorming, sketching, sewing, and consulting with my fiance Alex and stepson Isaac (who are both booty experts), I created this beautiful little number:

I made this beauty by covering an existing pillow (specifically the red velour one with the hole in it that Anna kept nagging me to fix, ha!) with pink polar fleece that had the tattoo design embroidered into it.  I first rounded all the corners, then sewed the butt crack to attach the fabric on both sides, then trimmed and sewed the seams.  The embroidery was my favorite part because I got to look up tons of free tattoo fonts online.  I love fonts, so this took awhile, but once I found the one I wanted, I simply sketched it onto the fabric and embroidered to my heart's content.  The end product came out pretty effing amazing despite my rather novice hand-sewing skills.

Isaac's new puppy, Rose, (at his mom's house) particularly liked the pillow because it was so soft and fluffy.  Just like butt pillows are supposed to be.

In case you can't tell from these photos, my tattoo is on one side of the butt pillow and Eve's tattoo is on the other.  So, theoretically more than actually (because of measurement problems), if you push enough of the stuffing into the pillow, you can get the "mooning" effect we were going for with the tattoo in the first place.  If you are thinking right now that I am probably the world's coolest best friend ever, you are probably right.