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I love free patterns!  Here is a pillowcase pattern that I use all the time.  The finished pillowcase doesn’t have any raw edges so it looks professionally done.  Check out the pattern below and get making some easy gifts for yourself and your friends!

This is a pillowcase I made using the pattern just last week.  After the little guy’s diaper leaked a bit on this one, I decided I better have a back-up.

Handmade Pillowcase Pattern

Use 42-44” wide fabric.  Use a ¼ inch seam unless otherwise noted.

2/3 yard fabric for base of pillowcase

2 ½ inches for accent strip

1/3 yard fabric for header of pillowcase

1. With right sides together, place accent strip on header fabric, sewing down the long edge.  Side edges may not match—that’s ok!
2. With right sides together, sew base fabric to accent strip along the long edge.
3. With the right side facing up, roll up the base fabric and then match the raw edge or your header material with the seam that you made when you sewed your base fabric and accent strip together.  Pin in place.  This will form a tube with your base fabric lying inside.  Sew ¼ inch seam along the edge you pinned.
4. Pull the base fabric out of the header.
5. Fold the pillowcase in half with WRONG sides together.  Trim side edges even.  Sew across down the side and across the bottom using a scant ¼ inch seam.  Turn wrong side out and press.  With right sides together, sew a 3/8 inch seam making sure to cover the raw edges of the previous seam.  Turn right side out, and press seams.  Enjoy!

I love weekends!  I hope that wherever your “weekend” falls in the week that you are able to enjoy it fully! 

My Saturday included making banana bread, delivering patterns to a local shop, chilling at the dog park, homemade soup, and quality sewing room time.  Yay! 

I gave up the TV last week after getting mad at it!  I felt like throwing it out the window.  Since banning it from my life I now get so much more done!  Go figure! 

On the back of this bench is a hand stitched family tablecloth.  It was stained and my mom didn’t know what to do with it, so I dyed it with tan RIT dye so the stain blended in.  Good as new. 

It was a bit of a baby day in the sewing room.  I threw this blanket together rather quickly.  It is a flannel panel that I backed with a very soft material and then stuck ribbons out the edges.   Sewed around the edges and turned it right side out.  I thought I might use embroidery floss to tie it in a few places, but I’m not even going to do that.  Very simple project.  Little ones love sucking on the ribbons.   

I also made this pillowcase.  I love the little animals on the fabric.  The directions for the pillowcase are easy and all the seams are hidden so it looks rather professional when you are done. 

So what am I doing with all this baby stuff?!  Maybe gifts, maybe the hope chest.   Tony says I need to get my dad to make me another hope chest since I’ve filled the first one.