Machine embroidered pillow cover
Happy Saturday! I’m sooooo thankful for the weekend! It was a busy/stressful week, and I’m glad to relax with my family for a few days! It doesn’t hurt that the weather is nice & sunny, either.
This week, I’m sharing a project that was so fun to make. I got to try out more of the stitches on my sewing machine, play around with colored threads, and make a new pillow cover- three of my favorite things in one project!
Here’s what you’ll need:
1/2 yard of 7 oz. cotton duck natural, several colors of thread, a disappearing ink pen/marker, and a ruler + sewing machine.
I just love trying out new stitches on my machine. I was looking through some old magazines recently, and saw a few pillows with gorgeous hand embroidery, and I just loved them! I wanted a fresh new pillow cover for spring, but not only am I not great at hand embroidery, but I don’t have a ton of time for it either, with a toddler running around. I figured machine embroidery was better than no embroidery, so I gave it a try!
To start, cut out a 16″ square, and 2 pieces of 16″ x 12.5″. For now, you can set aside the 2 rectangles & just focus on the square.
I laid my pillow top on the cutting mat & used my ruler to figure out that I could fit 7 lines on the fabric if I drew them 2″ from each end, and 2″ apart from each other.
With 7 lines, I decided to go for 7 different colors of thread. I went with a rainbow palette, but you are more than welcome to do whatever you like. I think different shades of the same color would be gorgeous!
Once you decide what colors to use, and what order to sew in, you get to decide which stitches to use! I had a piece of scrap fabric nearby that I used to ‘test’ out stitches. That was kindof fun!
Anyway, there’s no right or wrong way to choose your stitches, just use what speaks to you!
A really good idea is to be sure that you have plenty of thread in your bobbin so you don’t run out in the middle of a stitch! Thankfully, I was able to pick up right where I left off, and you can’t tell that anything happened. 🙂
Once you’ve finished your stitches, it’s time to turn your square into a pillow cover!
I used the same steps as in the fussy cut pillow cover tutorial to finish this pillow!
I thought it’d be nice to use one of the fun stitches to hem the back rectangles. I just love how it turned out!