After my son got a bedroom redo for his birthday, my daughter got really jealous of his embroidered pillow sham and really wanted me to make one for her.
So, I figured Christmas would be a good time to do that for her.
I made the pillow case out of bleached white muslin (like I said, work horse fabric). By the way, when I get like 10 yards of muslin, since it's not pre-washed and thus is going to shrink, I wash the entire 10 yards at once, dry it and then untangle it and then iron the entire thing at once. This saves me a lot of time when it comes to working with the fabric.
To make a pillow case I just take an existing pillow case, turn it inside out and just trace around it with a pencil and then add double the folded over open end onto the fabric so that when I fold the fabric over it'll be the right size. I then sew it up and then take pinking shears to the seams to help stop it from fraying (because I'm lazy and didn't want to do a double folded seam).
I embroidered the first letter of my daughter's name onto the pillow and then made a border-like design on either side to make the pillow case look fancier than just having the A on it. I eyeballed the design and drew it onto the finished pillow case in pencil. I outlined the A, the flowers and the vines in stem stitch. I filled in the A with varying lengths of satin stitch and then added french knots for the little flowers. I also did french knots for the middle of the border flowers as well.
By the way I got the design for the A from here and got the idea for the border design from here.
Total Time to Make Gift: Three Hours between the embroidery and the making of the pillow case.
Total Cost to Make Gift: I had all the materials to make this, so it was free for me to make.
You do beautiful embroidery work. I'm sure your daughter will love it!
ReplyDeleteI think your daughter will have quite the "Fancy Nancy" Christmas this year. The pillowcase is lovely and would be a perfect gift for an older recipient as well.
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