Travel Pillow: free PDF sewing pattern

📍 Level: beginner • Video tutorial length: 25 min

Learn to sew this comfortable travel pillow, ideal for car, train or plane journeys. A useful, quick sewing project, perfect for beginners! The pattern comes in child and adult sizes.

📏 Sizes

2 sizes: child and adult (the zip differs: 20 cm for the child, 25 cm for the adult).

🧵 What you need

• Outer fabric: 1 piece of 36 × 80 cm (cotton, poplin or a soft fabric of your choice)
• Lining fabric: 1 piece of the same size (36 × 80 cm)
• Zip: 20 cm (child) or 25 cm (adult)
• Stuffing: about 40 g of toy filling
• Matching thread, scissors, pins, sewing machine

📐 Cut fabric dimensions

• Outer: 36 × 80 cm
• Lining: 36 × 80 cm
• Zip: 20 or 25 cm depending on the size

✂️ Technical details

• Rectangular pillow shaped like a travel cushion
• Zip closure so you can remove the stuffing and wash the cover
• Available in 2 sizes: child and adult
• Quick project, doable in under an hour
• Ideal for travel, weekends away or as a handmade gift

📄 What this free pattern includes

• the full-size pattern, available in French, English, German and Spanish;
• three paper formats: A4 for French, German and Spanish, and A4 plus US Letter for English;
• both sizes, child and adult, with 1 cm seam allowances included;
• a 5 cm test square (and 1 inch on the US Letter version) so you can check the print is at 100%.

🎬 The video tutorial