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Travel
Pillow Case
This
handy pillowcase for a travel-size pillow incorporates a pocket
to keep the pillow form in place. The pillowcase front is a perfect
platform for embroidered embellishments.
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3/4 yard fabric, 45" wide
Floriani
Template Tearaway
Floriani
Heat N Sta
Threads
for embroidery and sewing
12"
x 16" pillow form
Sweetheart
Borders and Coordinates from My Fair Lady Designs
Monogram
alphabet of your choice
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Instructions
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Begin
by printing full size templates of the embroidery designs
and a single initial from your monogram font on Floriani Template
Tearaway. Be sure to indicate the horizontal and vertical
centerlines on each template. Trim each template just outside
the design area.
The templates are especially useful if you are making the
project with a 4" embroidery hoop; the main design has
been rotated 45º so it fits within the small hoop without
a great reduction in the design size.
The templates are also useful for locating a script initial
within the embroidered frame, since matching the center points
of the initial and frame does not always create a visually
pleasing arrangement.
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Cut a 13" x 20" rectangle for the pillowcase front
and a 13" x 24" rectangle for the pillowcase back.
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Cut a piece of Floriani Heat N Sta about 4" wider than
the pillowcase fabric, or big enough to fill a large hoop.
Fuse the stabilizer to the fabric wrong side at one short
end of the pillowcase front so the stabilizer extends 2"
beyond the fabric at the sides.
(The additional stabilizer allows hooping near the fabric
edges.)
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With a removable marker, draw a line on the pillowcase front
5" from the stabilized short end. This is the base line
(not the centerline) for the central embroidery.
Also draw a line along the vertical center of the pillowcase
front.
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Remove the protective paper backing and position the templates
on the marked fabric, using the centerline and baseline as
guides. The center motif sits on the baseline, while the side
motifs extend 1/8" below it.
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Hoop the fabric at the first embroidery placement. Use the
machine controls to position the needle over the design centerlines
Remove the Template Tearaway and embroider the design.
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Repeat for the remaining floral motifs. If you are using a
large hoop, it may be possible to stitch all the designs without
rehooping.
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Rehoop the fabric so the central floral motif is within the
embroidery field. Use the template of the monogram initial
to position the monogram within the embroidered frame. Locate
the needle over the letter's center, remove the Template Tearaway,
and stitch the monogram.
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When embroidery is complete, remove the markings and as much
Heat N Sta as possible. Lay the embroidered fabric face down
on a thick towel and carefully press from the wrong side.
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Set the sewing machine for a regular straight stitch. On one
short end of the pillowcase back, turn under ¼"
twice and press. Edgestitch the hem.
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Fold 6" of the hemmed edge to the wrong side and press.
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On the embroidered end of the pillowcase front, press under
½", then 2", to create the hem. Edgestitch
through all layers with a regular straight stitch, or set
the machine for an entredeux stitch, insert a wing needle,
and stitch the hem in place.
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Lay the pillowcase front on the pillowcase back, right sides
together. Stitch the sides and the unfinished end with a ½"
seam. Use a serger, or set the machine for an overcasting
stitch to finish the seam edges.
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Turn the pillowcase right side out. The fold on the pillowcase
back will lie between the fabric layers.
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Insert the pillow form, tucking it inside the pocket of the
pillowcase back.
designed
by Rebecca Kemp Brent for RNK Distributing
Sources
Embroidery designs are courtesy of Shelly Smola, My Fair Lady
Designs
www.myfairladydesigns.com
Monogram
was digitized with PE Design from the True Type font English 111
Presto BT.
Click
here for a printable PDF version of this project
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