Friday, July 10, 2020

I don't often make these

however,
I had 52 + inches of backing fabric left over.  I thought of "fancy" pillows for our bedroom, but I couldn't figure out how to get the pillow forms for curbside pick up.  I didn't have zippers in stock either, so I shook my head and the brain fell into place.  Pillowcases!!
 I had 17 inches left of this which meant cutting it in half.  Yield 8.5" which isn't quite enough for a cuff.  I love big cuffs.  So I trimmed the + piece of fabric left over from the backing that I had trimmed off and used that piece, along with this fabric and did a cuff that looked
like this on the inside.
 
I was going to use the serger to make these, but my serger does not like thick seams and this pillowcase had two of them.  I opted to follow the directions from All People Quilt to do the "french seam" method.  I rather like it because everything looks finished when you are done.
Our pillowcases are longer than average because we have big pillows on our bed.  I opted for King size because standard pillows don't go edge to the middle and it leaves a gap.  I know.  I can hear ya!!  I am fussy.  I'm sorry.
I'm trying to bind the quilt but the warm weather is hampering my efforts.  It's coming along slowly and maybe next week it will be done.

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