Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love decorating and will start the day after Thanksgiving and end around the epiphany. This year I found this pillow cover:
This is the Nostalgic Tree Embroidered Pillow Cover from the Pottery Barn. Price tag: $99.50. Description: 50% cotton/27% linen/23% rayon, reverses to 100% cotton melange in solid color, zipper closure, accomodates 20-inch insert, spot clean.
I truly love the idea of making this pillow cover. The embroidery would be a definite slow down for me because I am slow. Here are generally instructions for creating a pillow cover:
1. Size - I make mine the same size as the pillow insert so that the dog ears are less likely to show. Example - this is a 20-inch pillow insert add 1-inch to the that to allow for 1/2-inch seam allowances.
2. Decide how you want to do the zipper. I have instructions for a lapped zipper here.
3. Generally instruction for how I decided on the sizes for the back are here.
4. How to create your piping here.
If you want to see the floor pillows that the created, do a floor pillow search. I still have those pillow covers and forms.
Now for the embroidery, I think I would just free hand something and start embroidering. Don't forget to locate little ornaments for the tree.
Happy Stitching!
