Then I repeated the same process for the
shirt fronts. Cut them carefully with scissors. More on that in a few minutes.
Now I want to stitch the shirt fronts together. I could use the buttons as a way to get
the pillow form inside the pillow cover, but
I didn’t want the front to gape between the
buttons. So I decided to stitch the front of
the shirt closed.
I’m a detail person so if I stitched the front
closed, I would end up with two lines of
stitching down the edge of the placket.
So I removed the stitching along the edge
of the placket. The one closest to the edge
of the shirt.
Then I pinned the shirt fronts together
(matching the strips) and sewed the two
pieces together where I had previously
removed the stitching.
The shirt fronts removed from the shirt
The original stitching on the placket. I removed the
right most stitching.
Technically, the shirt placket looks the same,
but now that right most line of stitching
isn’t only holding the placket lining in place,
both sides of the shirt are stitched together.
A small detail, but this is the front of the
shirt and two lines of stitching would have
driven me crazy!
Now I have two big pieces of fabric to make
the pillow cover. One from the back of the
shirt and one from the front.
Here’s where I ran into trouble. I didn't
measure. I went shopping for the pillow
form and I was going to purchase an 18"
pillow form. But I liked the quality of the 20"
pillow form better so I bought that one.
Now a little voice in the back of my head
was saying “Are you sure the shirt is going
to be big enough to cover the 20" pillow
form?” I promptly ignored the voice and
bought the bigger pillow form.
The shirt fronts stitched together
Follow instructions for making a cushion
cover that you can find on the internet or at
your local fabric store.
The “new” placket
I like to cut my squares for the front and
back the same size as the pillow form. For
a 20" pillow form we should have two 20"
squares of fabric (the back technically is
bigger to start since I’m putting a zipper in).
Have a look…
Shoot – if had of been a bit more careful
with the scissors, I may have been able to
eek out that extra little bit. But this is where
the project gets exciting for me. I wasn’t
too worried, because I could always get a
smaller pillow form and I would be OK. Let’s
think – think – think – what can we do to
solve this problem?
Just short of what I need!
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