How to sew pillowcase?

The original pillowcase, sewn with her own hands, will decorate any pillow. After all, the pillowcase is not only the attribute of bed linen, it is also the decoration of the whole house. Also, the pillowcases are quickly wear out, in the end they look inactively and not neat. But it is very easy to avoid it. After all, the pillowcase sews quickly and easily.

This article describes in detail how to sew a standard rectangular pillowcase (size 50x70).

1

What do you need for sewing pillowcases?

Getting Started with your own hands, first of all you need to choose a suitable tissue. Such tissue types are well suited for pillows:

1. hawk;
2. cotton;
3. slim flax;
4. siter;
5. satin.

So, with the choice of fabric, it was decided now that you need to prepare for sewing pillowcases:

1. Selected cloth for sewing;
2. Sharp scissors;
3. Reinforced threads that are suitable for fabric color;
4. Centimeter;
5. Special English pins (they are specifically designed for cutting and sewing);
6. Sewing machine;
7. Iron.

2

Step-by-step instruction

After they prepared everything you need, proceed to the sewing process itself:

1. Turn the cloth and make a cut 73x175 cm.
2. Turn two times the short side where the edge is made (1.5 cm). Location on the sewing machine to choose 2.5 - 3 mm.
3. From the invalion side we split the fabric. After that, we begin the shortest side of 30 cm from the edge.
4. The second side of the edge should be lowered by 70 cm. When smoothly all together, they spawn English pins. It turned out a workpiece of the product.
5. At this stage, we use the sewing machine. We begin to cross the sides of the product, approximately 0.6 - 0.7 cm from the very edge.
6. Fully turning the pillowcase inside out and rovingly straighten the corners.
7. We sew a boc of 0.7 cm.
8. Soak the product, smooth all the seams, irrigate.
9. Now the pillowcase is sewn and ready to use!

3

We enhance lightning on the pillowcase

Lightning on the pillowcase, it is convenient and practical. For such a sewing use:

1. Fabric, the size of which is 51 x 101;
2. Lightning completed 50 cm long (the size of the lightning depends on the size of the armor).

Getting to work:

1. Stroke the cloth, turn it inside out.
2. We flash the side seams. Lightning cutout leave not fired.
3. Estate the zipper, if necessary, stroke so that it was absolutely smooth.
4. We attach zipper to the pillow with English pins (approximately 1 cm from the edge of the fabric). Breppy just so that the cloves of the zipper looked up with the front side of the pillowcase.
5. Be sure to make an indentation from the side sections of 2.5 cm. An indent can be done more, but it is better to stick to this parameter.
6. In order to sew a secret zipper on a sewing machine using a special foot. It comes complete to all sewing machines.
7. From the wrong side, we lay the line, the length of which is 2.5 cm from the side slices.
8. The line should take place no more than 3 mm above from the zipper.
9. Turn the pillowcase, insert the end of the zipper into the holes.
10. Cutting everything too much and ready!

Sewing pillowcase does not take much time and strength. Here it is absolutely not needed any skills of cutting and sewing. In this way, you can change the decor, update the interior, supplement the bed linen with something new and special.

With all this, it turns out the original and beautiful product made by your own hands.