ShabbyShe

Repurposed Pillow Covers

It’s Christmas and inevitably if you’re hosting like me you will be reaching for the guest bedding to make up the beds for your impending family visits. That’s when it dawns on you that your pillows are shabby, and not in a good way! By the way, we’re talking pillows on your bed here, American friends, not cushions on your settee 😉

Two of my pet peeves when making the bed are a) using flat sheets (grrr) and b) pillows that are losing their stuffing. Problem solved with my repurposed pillow covers, here’s how:-

1. Take a flat sheet (single bed sized) and fold in half length ways
2. Machine stitch along the folded edge to the end

3. Place your seen-better-days pillow inside the top of the stitched sheet (the width is perfect for a standard size pillow)
4. Mark with a pin, fabric chalk or snip of the scissors where you need to cut
5. Remove pillow, cut sheet to size and machine along the top edge
6. Turn inside out, insert the pillow and fold the top edge inside neatly, pinning in place
7. Machine along the final edge (this is a bit awkward as the pillow and pins get in the way a bit, but I’m sure you can do this much better than me!)

Now I just need to find a solution to pins, which I always end up jabbing myself with when sewing!