Fancy Pillowcase Tutorial

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Fancy Pillowcase Tutorial:Picky Version

Heres what youll need:

yard main fabric

yard hem fabric

yard accent fabric

Matching thread

Iron

Rotary Cutter

Cutting Mat

Rulers

Chocolate

Wash, dry and press all

fabrics. {Yes, really. But

eat the chocolate

while the fabric is in the

spin cycle. It makes the

waiting much more

pleasant. [And if you

like to get really picky

like me, may I

recommend you serge

the raw edges of your fabrics before washing.] Washing and drying shrinks the fabric before you make it into

something beautiful. If it shrinks after it is made into something beautiful, sometimes it isn't so beautiful anymore.

Pressing helps with a nicer finished project.}

Square up your fabrics. Sometimes the manufacturing process pulls fabric off-grain as it is rolled onto the bolts.

Washing, drying and pressing helps to pull your fabric to the straight-of-grain {I usually starch too, but we want

the pillowcase to be soft and ready-to-use, so I'd suggest skipping that step for this particular project}. After you

have pressed the fabric fold in half lengthwise bringing the selvage edges together{like it was on the bolt}. If

the fabric puckers at the fold in the center, it means that the fabric was not cut on-grain. Slide the selvages

opposite of each other, but keep them parallel with each other until the pucker at the center fold disappears

and the fabric hangs straight. If the fabric was cut off-grain, the raw edges will not line up with each other

anymore and one layer of fabric will be longer than the other both ends. Cut perpendicular to the fold and

selvage edges, and this will put the fabric back on grain.

Cut the main fabric to 27" x width of fabric

Cut the hem fabric to 10" x width of fabric

Cut the accent fabric to 3" x width of fabric

{Yes, really. I had you buy extra fabric just for the purposes of shrinkage and squaring up. This means a nicer

pillowcase when you're all finished.}
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Place the fabrics on top of each other with the foldededges even. Cut away the selvage of all three fabrics

{about " in from the outside edge} at the width of the

narrowest fabric. {No, you don't have to measure. Just

make sure your folded edges are l ined up. Really. I know, I

said I was picky, but I'm only picky about the

really important things.}

With right sides together and using a seam, sew across the width of the

fabric along the top edge of the

pillowcase. Start at the raw edge and

sew to the fold. Sew down the length

of the fabric along the raw edges from

the top to the bottom. Sew two

separate, intersecting seams. This helps

to make a nicer corner when the

pillowcase is turned.


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Finish the raw edges of the inside of the pillowcase. You can either serge {recommended} or zig-zag stitcharound the edges.

Withright sides together and using a seam, sew the length {the edges that used to be selvage} of the hemfabric together to form a circle that is 10" tall. Repeat with the accent fabric, finishing with a circle that is 3"

tall. You will have two separate pieces of fabric. In the picture, it kinda looks like they are somehow sewn

together. Press the seams open.


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Turn the pillowcase right-side out, Press the seams flat. Fold the hem fabric in half along the width of thefabric, bringing the raw edges together so that you have a tube of fabric that is 5" tall. Repeat for the accent

fabric, finishing with a tube that is 1" tall. Place the hem fabric tube inside of the accent fabric tube, matching

the seams. Mark into quarters with pins. Mark the bottom edge of the pillowcase in quarters. Matching the side

seam of the pillowcase with the seam in the hem and accent fabrics, pin the right side of the pillowcase with

the accent in between the hem fabric and the pillowcase using the quarter-mark pins to line the pieces up

evenly. Sew the accent and hem to the bottom of the pillowcase using a " seam.

Finish the raw edge where you attached the hem and accent to the pillowcase by serging or zig-zag stitch.


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Turn the hem down to reveal your Fancy Pillowcase. Press the finished pillowcase {yes, really. Don't you seewhere it was folded, and wouldn't it have looked much nicer in the picture if it were pressed flat?}.

The finished pillowcase should be 32" long, which is plenty long enough for a standard size pillow.

If you follow these instructions and they don't make sense or you end up at a dead end, tech support is

available 24-hours*. Send me ane-mailand help will be only a moment away.

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