When we redecorated the girls room over a year ago we did bright colors on the walls and found curtains and blankets that had many bright colors in them. Then I bought fabric in similar colors in one yard increments to make a pillowcase for each of the four girls.
Well, we ended up moving the little girls out into a room of their own and well, I never made the pillowcases. However, recently we have put one of the colorful curtains into the little girls room where it looks cute and makes their room a bit darker in the mornings than their sheer curtain did, with the mini blind.
A few days ago I was looking at blogs and came across a tutorial for making pillowcases. You can find this lovely blog here. This tutorial is for handsewing but I used my machine.
They were so quick and easy to do. Basically, you fold one yard of fabric in half width-wise, I trimmed 2 inches off, and then I made French seams, folded several inches on the open end to give a nice wide hem, and voila! Finished!
Lindsay snatched them out from under the sleeping little girls this morning to take pictures of them!
It was fun trying out a decorative stitch....
Rachel's two pillows are the green and orange ones, and Sarah has the pink and the blue one.
They really only took me about 15 minutes per pillowcase. I am so excited now because I can make really pretty pillowcases with all kinds of cool trims etc...Have you seen the price of pillowcases lately? I could have some serious debt if I tried to have several sets of pillowcases per bed in this house! Now I know I can make them.
What great gifts they would make! Or an Etsy shop! Oh the options are endless!
10 comments:
Go for the Etsy shop!!!! I would love to see you have fun with these.
They are so cute!
Becky K.
They look great! The colors are so bright and cheerful!
heehee, that's so funny that Lindsay sniched them from the sleeping sisters! =)
Good Morning Sweetie...
Oh my goodness what a wonderful share today. I believe even I could make a pillowcase or two? or three? You have so inspired me.
I love the girls bright colors, what fun rooms they must have. I so love it.
I will check out the tutorial. I can't imagine sewing by hand, but I could handle the straight seams on my machine. Many thanks sweet friend.
Country hugs,Sherry
Pillowcases are ridiculously expensive. Just to find one to embroider, that was cheap enough, wasn't an easy task. I need to make these and embroider on them!
i want a cute pillow case haha!! great idea though! and very colorful!
katie
So cute! LOVE the colors!!
I just love those colors! Looks like a fun project. :)
Such a great idea...really cute.
Gee's, what a fab idea, and so cheap to boot. Your full of creativity.
Thanks for sharing this one.
Love & Prayers,
Ronda
That is so cool! I love the colors you made yours in!
Manuela
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