(Golf) Pillow Case How-To

To go along with the golf blanket I blogged about yesterday, I made my brother two golf pillow cases for Christmas.

Pillow cases are super easy to make and only require one metre of fabric, so they can also be super cheap. Here's the how-to...



I started by using an old pillow case I had lying around and cutting my fabric a little bit larger than it. My fabric is folded in half at the top, but you can have two pieces together if you want.

I then cut another strip of fabric to go along the opening of the pillow case.

From there, I pinned the edge of the strip of fabric to the edge of the large pillow case fabric. The 'good' side of the strip of fabric is on the 'bad' side of the main pillow case fabric. I sewed these together.

Then I moved to the iron. I folded around 3cm under on the edge strip of fabric and ironed it to stay in place.

I then moved to the seam I'd sewn between the strip and main pillow case. I ironed the seam to lay flat towards the strip.

From there, I folded the strip onto the main pillow. The ironing that you just did with the seam should help the fabric fold nicely where you want it to. Iron that fold flat.

Back to the sewing machine. Sew the strip to the main pillow case along the edge of the strip that you folded under earlier.

At this point, my pillow case looked like this. If I'd started with two pieces of fabric in the beginning instead of one folded one, I would have two smaller pieces that look like this one.

This is a close-up of what the 'strip' part should look like at this point.

I then folded the fabric in half so that the 'good' sides were touching and sewed around the three edges of the pillow cases. I didn't sew the edge with the 'strip', this is the opening in the pillow.

I then clipped the corners of the pillow case. This helps make nice corners when the pillow case is flipped right side out.

After this, I finished the edges of my pillow case using a serger/overlock sewing machine. This machine just finishes the edges of fabric nicely. A zig-zag stich on a regular sewing machine can do a good job of this as well.

The pillow case gets flipped right side out and it's finished. I made a second one in the same fabric as the matching blanket I'd made. The pillow cases and blanket are still on his bed, so I'd say it's safe to say he likes them enough.