Make decorative pillowcases with your own hands

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Decorative pillow cases will easily help transform the interior and give it a new look. Most importantly, this decor method is one of the most budgetary. Have several types of decorative pillowcases in stock, and then you can change them at least every day. Thus, your interior will also change. And in order to realize our plans, we suggest learning how to make decorative pillowcases for pillows with your own hands.

Preparatory stage

You can make a wide variety of pillowcases. But the preparatory stage for tailoring is the same:

1. Determine the pillows that you will sew pillowcases on. Decorative rollers can have any shape and form: classic squares, rectangles, hearts, and so on. Choose which pillows you will sew for. Also, pillowcases can be filled with a simple padding polyester.
2. Take measurements of the pillow for which the pillowcase will be sewn. Forit needs width and length. If the pillow is of a non-standard shape, then simply attach it to a sheet of paper and circle it along the contour.
3. Choose a pillowcase design. Decorative elements need to be considered at this stage, as you need to stock up on material.
4. Determine how your pillowcase will fasten. It can be a zipper, buttons, Velcro.
5. Prepare all the necessary tools and materials. The specific list depends on what exactly you will sew. But without fail, you will need: scissors, threads and a needle or a sewing machine, fabric, fasteners, decorative elements.

Pillowcase with patchwork decor

Perhaps this is one of the most budgetary ways to create a decorative pillowcase. After all, various shreds of fabric will be used, which it was a pity to throw away before. The only thing is that you will have to spend money on a large piece of material for the pillowcase itself.

We offer a master class on sewing pillowcases with patchwork decor:

1. Prepare two large pieces of fabric for the pillowcase. This will be the front and back side.
2. Take some colored scraps of fabric. It is desirable that they be interconnected by the structure of the fabric or by some one color.
3. Cut out a leaf shape from paper - an oval with pointed ends.
4. Applying the leaf pattern to the shreds, cut out several fabric blanks. They can be made in different sizes.
5. Cut out a piece of dark color (brown orblack) tree trunk.
6. Put a piece of fabric for the front side in front of you and spread the blanks of the trunk and leaves on it.
7. Fix the final version with tailor pins.
8. Now we need to sew all the elements. It is most convenient to do this on a sewing machine, then the seam will be uniform and less time will be required to work. If there is no machine, you can do everything manually. Work carefully.
9. When you sew all the elements, remove all protruding threads.
10. Sew a zipper to the finished side.
11. Sew the second half of the zipper to the back.
12. Fold the front and back of the pillowcase together inside out and sew them together.
13. Turn pillowcases right side out.

Decorative pillow cases are ready! By the same principle, you can make many different applications.

Ruffle pillowcase

The following is an instruction on how to sew a decorative pillowcase with ruffles:

1. Prepare all materials and tools.
2. Take the fabric for the pillowcase and cut it into two parts: front and back.
3. Take a piece of fabric that is more than one and a half times the length of the future pillowcase.
4. Cut this fabric into strips of equal thickness. Their number depends on the size of the pillow and your preference.
5. Sew each strip on the sewing machine, after setting the longest stitch pitch. You can also do it manually. The stitch should go in the middle of the strip, and the ends of the threadno need to tie.
6. Apply one strip to the front of the pillowcase and secure the edge with a safety pin.
7. Pull the thread on the other side of the strip to gather the fabric into an accordion.
8. Fix the other end of the strip to the right side.
9. Spread the ruffles and fasten the strip along the length a few more times.
10. Do the same with other stripes.
11. Apply the reverse to the front so that the ruffles remain inside.
12. Sew the two pieces of pillowcase together, leaving a small opening.
13. Turn the pillowcase right side out and fill it with padding polyester.

Decorative pillowcase with ruffles is ready! You can make it with a zipper or buttons.

More ideas

There are many different options for how to make decorative pillowcases with your own hands. Use scraps to make patchwork pillows, decorate with buttons, pom-poms, ribbon flowers, and more.

Really interesting things can be done using the material at hand.