I’ve had this cable-knit throw for years. I really like it. Perhaps that is why I held on to it far past its prime.
Coincidentally, I have been searching high and low for cheap pillow covers. Mine have been looking sad. Having furry little animals doesn’t help the ivory raw silk I bought before they came around. As I finally admitted that I needed to retire the throw, the answer revealed itself. It was like peanut butter meeting chocolate.
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I can’t get too fancy with this sewing thing. Despite all the tutorials I have pinned from Pinterest, sewing with zippers is way beyond my skill-set. And buttons … they create their own set of problems. But, I needed the pillow covers to be removable, so I couldn’t just sew the four edges and leave them be. That left the Envelope-style pillow cover. Easy. Below is my tutorial. After my tutorial is a better tutorial where the patient, clever lady actually measures and sews things. I take the guestimate approach and prefer to use fabrics with straight lines so I don’t have to measure or pin.
1) Start by cutting a long rectangle about 1/2 inch wider than your pillow but about 2 & 1/2 times to 2 & 3/4 times the length of your pillow. The looser or stretchier the material, the longer you want to make the length because it may gape a bit.
2) Lay out the piece good side up and and fold back the top to create a pocket.
The inside of the pillow should be facing out. Sew down the right and left side.
This top that is sewn first will also be the top side of your pouch, so if you have a nicer seam at one of the ends, this one should be the one flipped back first.
3) Then take your bottom half and flip up lay several inches over the top flap. Remember, you want the top and bottom to over lap.
This is where some measuring might come in handy. I did this casually by laying the pillow on top of my folded almost-done cover to size it up. It looked about right, so I carried on.
4) Now sew the bottom half along the right and left edges.
5) Flip right side out, poke out the corners and stuff your pillow inside. Now sit back and enjoy your work.
For those of you desiring more precision, check out this great tutorial. I find mine more inspiring, though, because it should leave you feeling that of I can do it, and make it turn out, so can you! Look how nice.
This project was so easy I made these, too, out of a tablecloth I ended up with.
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