Pillow talk

Ok not quite what it sounds :-) There are some luxury's we have decided we couldn't do without, a decent pillow being one of them! It will be bad enough having aching leg muscles and sore feet so the last thing we want is a sore neck and a bad nights sleep. As we have to travel light a normal pillow is out of the question so we have done a bit of research on small lightweight camping pillows. After a bit of web trawling and looking in camping shops we decided hollow fibre pillows was the way to go small, light and comfortable!Anyway the only problem with the pillow of choice was the cost, starting from around £5+ each, that would have meant at least £10 for two pillows which are less than half the size of a normal one!! Not to be defeated we struck on the idea of making our own!! So we went and bought a normal hollow fibre pillow for £2 and two pillow cases for £1.50, so a grand total of £3.50 for two pillows!! Just in case your interested below is how I made 2 camping pillows from one normal pillow, with the advantage I could make them to suit, although they are slightly heavier than one we could of bought by about 80g I think they are much more comfy.

Step one - Take a normal hollow fibre pillow, carefully cut one end open and take out the filling and put aside

Step two - Cut the pillow cover in half, hem and sew up one side of the one that has two open ends, split the filling you kept aside in half and stuff both pillows, then sew up and hem the final side to leave you with two smaller pillows.



Step three - Take a pillow case and put one of the half size pillow inside and measure and cut the pillowcase to size and sew up the cut side to leave a half size pillowcase.