Michelle’s Pillowcase Project


3/4 yard fabric for the body of the pillow
1⁄2 yard fabric for cuff (make sure your embroidery will show up on fabric)
1⁄4 yard coordinating fabric for trim
Embroidery design of your choice
Embroidery Hoop and Clothsetter
Embroidery threads
Sticky stabilizer
Cotton thread (to match) for assembling pillowcase
Normal sewing notions

Cutting:

Cut 27 x 41 from fabric for the body of the pillowcase
Cut 14 x 41 from cuff fabric
Cut 3 x 41 from trim fabric

Press trim and cuff pieces of fabric in half. Set trim fabric to the side and get cuff
fabric ready for embroidery.

Embroider design on fabric

Assemble pillowcase:

Lay embroidered cuff fabric (unfolded) flat with right sides facing up. Pin trim
fabric folded in half to raw edge of cuff fabric and stitch together with matching
cotton thread. Then lay they joined pieces of fabrics flat and take remaining
fabric and pin it to the cuff fabric with right sides together. (Wrong side of body
fabric will be facing up). Scrunch the unpinned side of body fabric together and
bring the other side of the cuff fabric over to make a tube. Pin this and take to
sewing machine to stitch.

Pull the fabric out of the tube and you are ready to assemble the sides of the
pillowcase using a French seam. With WRONG sides together stitch the open
sides of the pillowcase using a 1/4th” seam. Then turn the pillowcase wrong side
out and stitch around the pillowcase again this time using a 3/8” seam. Turn the
pillowcase inside out, press and you are FINISHED!!!

This pattern will make one standard size pillowcase approximately 32 x 20”.


Queen finished size is 30” and King is 36”.

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