Time for Plan B

I was at Hobby Lobby today and had to make a difficult decision. I had started a craft project a few months ago and made a terrible mistake. I had been stalking the scrapbook section at my local Hobby Lobby for months waiting for certain page. Sadly, the spot remained empty. Today I decided to purchase a different paper today and hope it work well with the existing paper. What exactly is the project I am talking about? Well, it's tutorial time!

My mom had purchased letters at Hobby Lobby that spell out my name. The plain white boring letters where starting to look depressing and since I'm not much of a painter I chose to cover them with scrapbook paper.

Here's how I did it:

I began with my remaining letter and the new paper I chose.

I traced the M on to the back side of the scrapbook paper. (Make sure the back side of the letter is facing you as well, this is where I messed up the first time...)

Now you have a copy of your letter. You will modge podge the paper to the letter.I used two coats on the wooden letter before I applied the paper and another two on top of the paper to make it stick.

After the glue dried, I trimmed the overlap. I suggest using a small razor or scissors. 

Here is my finished M!

Here is all three letters together. I'm pretty proud of my myself for picking out a good matching paper.

Here's the far away view. Hope you enjoy this! 

 

If You Can't Find It, Make It!

I love having my monogram put on items. I have it put on everything, from pullovers to scarves to bags, even my eye mask has it on there. A little crazy you say? Well, my mom just happens to own an embroidery business! So I get everything down. However, there are a few items she can't do; such as pre-made pillowcases. And the ones you can buy are super expensive. So I made my own and decided to show you how to make your own pillowcases. So let's begin!

So I started with two different fabrics: the piece for the cuff I cut to be 11 x 41 inches, and the body to be 26 x 41 inches. Now you can use scrap fabric and they don't have to measure up to my measurements as long as they fit a standard pillow cases.

I had the body and two cuff monogrammed because I own three pillows for my bed. So I'm going to have two different ways for you to make the pillowcases.

First way:

Pin the right side of the body and cuff fabrics together on the 41 inches side.

Now, sew it together like so.

After sewing, your pillowcase should begin to look this the above and below picture (minus my monogram).

I then hemmed the cuff by sewing an inch inseam. Your inseam can be whatever size you want, mine just had to make sure the monogram was centered.

After hemming the cuff fold the pillowcase in half with the right side facing in.

Pin the side and end where the pillow will not enter the pillowcase.

After you sew, turn inside-out and press. First way is done.

Second Way:

For this way, pin wrong side to wrong side of the 41 inches side with the cuff underneath the body.

Now flip over and roll the body fabric down.

Go all the way until the roll will reach the bottom and you can see the cuff fabric.

Fold the cuff over the roll and pin so the body fabric is inbetween a sandwich of the cuff fabric.

Side view. Now you may sew all of this together.

Now pull the body fabric out of the roll. This might be a little hard, but pull the body in one hand and the cuff in the other away from each other.

Now you have a beautiful cuff with no hemming.

Ta-da!

Now fold with wrong side out and pin the side and back end of pillowcase. Press if desired. Second way is finished!

Here is the finish product of the first way!

Twiggy was unhappy about the new pillowcases when I first put them on the bed.

Finished product of second way!

Twiggy likes them now.

Ta-da!! Hope you enjoy the finished product as much as Twiggy does.