Pillow Cases

Sister Judy Pearce had us over at her home and taught us how to sew! We made pillow cases from two pieces of fabric, and we included French seams. Pretty fancy, right? They all turned out SO well! Props to our young women for their direction-following skills and their pillow-case-sewing skills!

Sister Maureen Speed was also able to come and help us out.

There were enough borrowed sewing machines there that each young woman and each leader was able to sit at her own. Thanks to everyone who brought a sewing machine!!

We had a lot of "pressing" issues to attend to throughout the project!

We had a ton of fun and were even getting a little silly by the end...

Here's the finished product. Everyone did such a great job on their pillow cases!

Thank you, SO MUCH, Sister Pearce and Sister Speed for teaching us how to make these awesome pillow cases!

Sister Pearce also sent an email to help us make another pillow case on our own:

I hope the girls enjoyed their sewing experience last night.  They all did such a good job on making their pillowcases.

For the pillowcases we made, we used the following fabrics:
                3/4 yard fabric 1
                1/3 yard fabric 2

A step-by-step how-to is given at the following website:

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/instructions/RollItUp.pdf

I just trimmed off the selvage edges of the fabric and used the amount of fabric that was left – not trimming it down further to fit the dimensions given on the pattern. 

One can also add an accent fabric between the two pieces of fabric.  This site shows how to do that:

http://www.rainydayquiltschool.com/Rolled%20Pillowcase%20Pattern.pdf

Just Google “free pillowcase patterns” and you can find all types of pillowcase patterns.