Easiest Pillow Slipcover, Pillow Sham Tutorial Ever!

I found this great fabric that my girls just love. It's fuzzy and stretchy. Why do little girls love fuzzy so much? It makes me sneeze. But this is what we do for those we love.


 Anyway, most home dec fabrics come 54" wide which is plenty to wrap around a standard or queen size bed pillow. For a standard pillow, using this stretchy fabric, 1/2 yard of the fabric works perfect. For woven fabrics maybe get 3/4 to 1 yard and trim it back to fit.

Since we didn't cut off the selvage edges, we don't have to sew them but feel free if you want a more finished edge.

 With pillow laying on fabric, overlap long ends creating the envelope you need for a slipcover. Pin one side along the edges and pull out your model pillow from the other side. Now finish pinning the remaining side.















 

Simply stitch down the long raw edges. If you are using a fabric that frays easily or is fuzzy as in this case, you can finish the edges with a serger or zig-zag stitch.








Turn the cover inside out and stuff with pillow. You're done! Easy peasy.

And two very happy daughters!

Three outfits in one day Tutorial

Yep, I did that. But really, I'm not bragging.
Within one hour, I made three new outfits.
It's easy. First, I started with this dress.

Then I cut it in half. Using a cutting board, straight edge and rotary cutter makes this task especially easy and smooth.

For the top half I simply put in a 1/2" hem using a cover stitch machine. If you don't have a cover stitch machine, you can substitute an double needle. If your fabric is stretch, use a ball-point double needle. To make a straight hem from the front side of the fabric, I start with a 1/2" basting stitch along the edge to be hemmed. Be sure you are set for wide stitches because you are using this stitching line as a fold line and will be pulling it out after the hem is in.

Now you are ready to hem. With the fabric heading into the feeders right-side-up, fold the fabric under on the basting line you previously sewed. Continue till you are done, carefully pull out the basting stitch and now you have a new top.






















For the bottom I used fold-over elastic. Awesome stuff. Here is a fold-over elastic tutorial for you reference. I probably should have taken the waist of the skirt in a little since it was originally down at the lower hips. I had to do a lot of stretching with the elastic to get it to fit. Just and FYI.

Here are my new outfits:

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