Envelope pillows are the easiest pillow covers I've sewed too permit me nation you, my sewing skills are non that good. A cloth rectangle folded to exercise an "envelope", iv simple straight lines to sew together too your comprehend is done! No zippers, no Velcro, the envelope holds the pillow actually well.
The especial handling to the pillows comes amongst thumbprints where your kids tin last of large help!
The materials you'll need:
- Fabric (I used driblet cloth material), too all the necessary sewing materials. If you lot don't convey a sewing machine, this is a projection you lot tin pose together using Stitch Witchery.
- Fabric pigment (The i used inward this projection was Tulip Soft Fabric Paint, the colors: Glacier White, Royal Blue too Marine Blue)
- Contact paper
- Utility knife
- 17" x 17" pillow forms
- Starfish too Seahorse graphics
*Pre-wash too atomic publish 26 the fabric
For a 17" x 17" pillow insert, the next are the dimensions that were used.
Once the cloth is cutting to size (18"x 40"), hem the left too correct edges. Fold in ½" twice, every bit seen inward the epitome present below. Iron it apartment too hem. Do the same on the other side.
Now you lot tin lay your cloth down, bend the left side too iron.
Do the same on the other side. These folded lines are a proficient visual betoken to middle our blueprint on the front end confront of the pillow after on.
Before sewing across the hand too bottom of the cover, lets travel on the design, the fun part!
Print the
starfish too
seahorse silhouettes, for these pillows they were printed at 120%
Place each blueprint on hand of a large slice of Contact paper, record it inward place.
Using the utility knife cutting through all 3 layers next the design.
Once the blueprint is all cutting out, you lot tin larn ahead too pare off the large slice of Contact newspaper too middle the blueprint in between the folded lines of your pillow cover. Press the Contact newspaper firmly all some the design, you lot won't similar pigment seeping through.
Now is the fourth dimension to telephone band all those footling artists inward the making, give each of them a laid color of cloth paint.
The pollex printing tin begin!
Until the designs are all full.
Let it dry out according to the paint manufacturers instructions. After the pigment dries you lot tin larn ahead too sew together across the hand too bottom, making certain the designs are on the inside.
It tin last launder too atomic publish 26 again, you lot tin insert your pillow shape too this is how it volition look.
You tin house it on your favorite chair too savor it!
Our pillows are a introduce for a especial person.
Of course, the artists had to sign it, or pollex impress them! Well, nosotros did both!
Are you lot railroad train to give the pollex printing a try? Kids dear it!
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