Custom Sorority Gift Ideas- Sorority Pillow

Willard Sorority- custom sorority pillow

Sorority pillows are a welcome sorority gift. They can be expensive when you buy manufactured pillows available through Greek stores. This website offers alternative sorority gifts and particularly hand made ideas for sorority gifts.

You can be sure if you make your own sorority gifts, that your sister who receives a handmade sorority gift will appreciate the time, talent, and effort you have put in with your artistic labor of love. We have a lot of ideas for you at our page of sorority gift ideas.

The sorority pillow in the picture is just an example of a custom made sorority pillow that you can make yourself or, if you are short of time, you can order a custom made pillow for the Sorority Gifts Etsy Store and I will make one for you for only $12.99 + shipping.

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Two additions of the Willard pillow shown below:

Willard Sorority Ducky Pillow

Phi Mu Little Sister Gifts

Phi Mu Sisters----Make your own sorority gifts!

This Phi Mu little sister sorority gift only needs to be put into a 5 x 7 frame, wrapped up in festive paper, and given to your favorite little sister.

Here is an example of an easy, inexpensive sorority gift that you can make quickly.  Small mats like this one in standard sizes like 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 can be found in craft stores. Actually, a pink mat would be even better, but this time, I just used what I already had.

You need a lion drawing that you can print off on cardstock or you can 'free hand' a drawing of a lion. Add the Phi Mu letters and "I Love my Lil Sis!" with a Sharpee or other pen.

Color with colored pencils or use watercolor paints like I did here.

Cut and tape the painted design to the back side of your mat. Then pop it into a little frame - I pick up nice little frames at the dollar store.

This can be done for any other sorority. If you need a mascot drawing, go to Google Images and see what you can find. You can print off a sorority mascot picture and then trace it with a black pen so that you only have the line drawing without color. This is easy if you trace, holding your papers up to a window so the light shines through. This enables you to clearly see the lines of the design.

Delta Alpha Sigma Pillow with Pegasus

I just finished sewing this Delta Alpha Sigma pillow and I love the way it turned out!

The Sorority Gifts Etsy shop offers custom made sorority pillows like this and I haven't turned down a request yet. I do get quite busy sometimes, so always check with me before you order if you have an important deadline.

Do you like to make your own sorority gifts? If so, take a look at our Gamma Phi Beta pillow article.  I explain there the basics of making pillows like this on. We also have ideas for some sorority gifts on our Sorority Crafts page.

If you would like to order one of my pillows, get your order in soon to avoid being disappointed.  If I get too many orders, I have to catch up on my sewing and painting before I can relist the custom pillow for order.

I really enjoy making the sorority pillows. At this point, I'm still taking orders. I have not yet gotten so busy that I've had to shut down.

I have made pillows with handpainted sorority mascots for Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta (the frog and the teddy bear-depending on request), Chi Omega owl, Phi Mu lion or ladybug, Alpha Delta Pi lion, Alpha Omicron Pi Panda, ZTA crown, Delta Sigma Theta elephant, AKA frog, KK Gamma owl,  Alpha Gamma Delta squirrel,  and many more.

Sorority Sisters has a special page devoted to  sorority pillows  For more information about  sorority pillows, click over to  Sorority Pillows.

Sorority Sunglasses in Time for Spring Break

I have posted about these sunglasses before, but I wanted to include some links again since spring break is coming up.

I believe these are the same sorority sunglasses that were not available for a while. The price of $9.95 is unbeatable and the eBay description includes a GREEK LICENSED symbol which is nice to know. Before buying, always check the feedback of the seller. I usually take time to read some of the feedback, too, rather than just looking at the score or percentage.

The Greek Sunglasses seller on eBay  has this to say about this sorority product:

These sunglasses are Black, and feature BIG BOLD Greek Letters on BOTH SIDES of the sunglass frame. The letters are permanent and WILL NOT WEAR OFF.

These sunglasses are high quality, and extremely fashionable. They provide UV400 protection from the sun's harmful rays. These are not cheap and flimsy sunglasses that will break easily, we only sell high quality sunglasses. We stand behind our product.

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See our post on Sorority Sunglasses Straps or CROAKIES

Go to the other Sorority Sisters POST on Sorority Sunglasses.

Sorority Totes

I have made sorority tote bags with out sewing them. The trick is to buy a pre-made off white canvas tote bag from Hobby Lobby or another craft store that offers them. I have even found the canvas bags on sale for half price several times, which saves a lot.

I included a picture of a Delta Zeta tote that I painted to show you and example of what you can do.

You know, I always start with a simple drawing on paper for my pattern, in this case a turtle.  When painting on fabric, very often, you can just put the pattern behind the fabric (after going over the lines with a black marker to emphasize them) and you can see the line through the fabric. Unfortunately, canvas is too thick to do this. So to get my turtle pattern onto the bag, I trace my pattern onto a piece of cardboard or card stock and cut it out. This makes a template of the outer lines of the turtle. With a pencil, I lightly trace around the turtle template onto the canvas. That gives me the basic line and then I can free hand the inner lines of the pattern. Getting the pattern penciled onto the canvas is probably the hard part.

Once you have your pattern drawn on the canvas, then you get out your pink and green paint, or go to the store and buy some if you don't have any. I keep a supply of most colors of acrylic paint and I also keep so good quality paint brushes on hand always for projects like this.

I had some nice pink rick rack so I sewed that along the top edge of the bag. There is fabric glue available if you don't sew. Last, I tied a puffy pink bow around the handle of the tote for a nice touch.

(the cardboard DZ patterns shown above are not the right pattern, but I am showing you what I mean by a cardboard template to trace around.)

Sorority Totes are available almost any store that sells sorority merchandise and gifts. I found this Delta Gamma tote bag on eBay selling for $18.99. It is an attractive bag and that is probably a fair price, but a sorority tote is another item that we, here at Sorority Sisters website, think you may want to consider making for yourself or as a gift. After all tote bags are pretty easy to sew.

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