Project Time

January came and the doldrums set in.  I was trying to figure out what I could do or where I could go, short of a warm sunny cruise to snap me out of feeling boring.  And I had a nice little simple project pop into my head that I had spotted on a blog a while back.  I remembered I had picked up these lovely cloth napkins like five years ago because I liked them. 

They usually sat in my buffet table rolled up, taking up space in the unused wine rack.  Until a week ago, when I found a much better use for them. And I already have a million pillows that need new covers so this project cost me nothing but a little time.

You need 2 cloth napkins to make one pillow cover, and need to obviously make sure that if you have, say an 18" pillow that your napkins are about 20".  Basically you cut one cloth napkin in half.  Flip it so the hemmed sides are together and overlapped.  Pin pretty side of both napkins together.  Sew them together around the edges.  Then flip right side out using the overlapped already hemmed edge to pull it through, and boom you have a pillow cover.  To stop the gappage that may occur you can sew little strips of velcro across the opening.  (that was the time consuming part for me, the detail work).  And if my directions are fuzzy check out the tutorial that I loosely followed.

the pillow at the top shows where the hemmed edges and the velcro strips that hold them.  You can hardly even see it.

I love an easy, free and satisfying project.