AHA – there's a hem on the shirt – let’s
open the hem and see how much more
that gives me.
Let’s not forget that I like to round off the
corners of the pillow cover. Oh yes – I’m
good to go! See? There’s always a way!
This is my version of living on the edge
– a problem comes up – how can it be
solved? I love it!
I wanted to insert a zipper into the back
of the pillow cover. Therefore I trimmed
the front to 19 1⁄2" and the back was
trimmed to 19 1⁄2" wide and as long as I
could get from the back. I was going to
try and match up the plaid when I inserted the zipper.
Opening the hem gives me an extra one half inch!
Cutting the pillow cover front (from the shirt front) and
the pillow cover back (extra long to accommodate
the zipper insertion)
Zipper inserted – not too bad on the plaid matching
Yes – there really is a zipper in there.
Machine embroidering the pocket
Now it’s time to move to the pocket
and the machine embroidery.
Karen gave me some text to embroider
on the pocket. I was working with a very
small area (the original orange pocket), so
I did a complete sample stitch-out to see
how it would work for the size. I did have
to shrink the letters down a bit so they
would fit on the pocket. There are ways
to print this out rather than stitching it
out, but we're not there yet.
When the sample was stitched out – I
realized the pocket was too small. The
embroidery would fit, but barely and
that would make it look too squished. Oh
dear – I hate making pockets, but looks
like I have to bite the bullet and make
one.
Well – I had an entire shirt – so I just
hooped an area of the orange shirt