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crafty crafty:
Make
a
Pillow SHAM
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instructions
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What you’ll need | 1 Measure your pillow: You can make a sham for any sort of rectangular pillow, whether it’s for your bed or for the sofa. Use a tape measure to figure out the height and width of the pillow, and write it down.
2 Figure out how much fabric you need. You can make your border as thick as you like, although a 2"-4" border is most common, and the larger the pillow, the bigger the border can be. You’ll be cutting out three pieces of fabric with the following dimensions … 1 sham front piece:
2 sham back pieces:
3 Carefully measure and mark your fabric using a colored pencil and a ruler. Cut your fabric.
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On a clean flat surface, place the sham front face up. Line up one of
the sham back pieces to the edge of the sham front, and 6 Sew a 1/2" seam along the entire perimeter using a straight stitch. (You can mark the sewing line using a ruler and pencil first if you’re not feeling too confident about your ability to sew in a relatively straight line.) Remove all the pins.
7 Turn the pillowcase right-side out, using a pen or pencil to poke the corners square if necessary. Iron the pillow sham flat, to get the edges good and crisp.
9 Remove all your pins; peel off the tape. Stuff in your pillow through the back of the sham, snuggle back and enjoy. |
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Press a 1" double hem on one long edge of each sham back piece by
placing the fabric face down, folding 1" and ironing flat, then
folding another inch and ironing again. Sew the hems using a straight
stitch.
place it face
down. Line up the remaining sham back to the opposite edge of the sham
front piece, again placing it face down. Pin the fabric together at the
edges, as well as along the overlap
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Now for the border: to help you keep a straight line, measure _____
inches in from the edge of the fabric (fill in the blank with the border
thickness you decided upon way back when you were making fabric
calculations), and apply scotch or masking tape (any tape that isn’t
too stubbornly tacky – you want to be able to remove it easily) to
mark your sewing line on the fabric. Make sure you remember which edge
of the tape you’ll be using as your guide. Pin the fabric together so
that the front and back pieces don’t slide around. Sew a
straight edge along the entire border, sewing just to the edge of the
tape rather than through it (if you accidentally sew through the tape,
don’t panic … it’s just a little more work when it comes time to
remove it).