Seriously Easy Pillow Covers

Okay, so let's play a game of what's wrong with the following picture...

If you guessed the green pillow with the red/khaki color scheme - You Guessed It!  Hooray!

(Okay, who am I kidding.  The green pillows has been around for almost 2 years.  I have really wanted to change them many times... but just now did it.  Oops)

So, I used fabric I had left over from our kitchen table makeover...which will likely make its way to a post soon.  And, I used this awesome tutorial.  The nice part is that the pillow cover has a zipper, so it is easy to wash.  The tutorial is really easy, and the part that took me the longest was cutting out the fabric.  For some reason, I am way too slow at cutting my peices.  But, then again, sewing is all in the prepartion and details.  I just don't know if the cutting preparation should take quite that long.  :)

And, after a little while of sewing goodness.... here is the final product!

LOVE it!

A close up of the zipper on the back:

And, when the flap is closed, you can barely tell there is a zipper!

I have gotten lucky a couple of times now where the pattern lines up quite nicely... it helps to hide the zipper even better.  Not really sure how I do that...

And a few other things... the tutorial calls for the zipper to be at the top of the pillow.  Oops.  The way I cut my fabric, the zipper ended up being on the side.  I like to call that a nice assymetrical look.

And, I accidentally bought a zipper too long.  So, you can easily fix that by using a wider zig-zag stitch and just stitch back and forth in one spot... it will end up looking like this:

You'll want to cut the zipper about an inch after your newly made stopper.

And, you remember in my last post when I talk about my crafting adventure exploding all over the kitchen? .... well....

Yep, there we have it.  It's a good thing that my sweet husband is out of town... and not here to be bothered by the sewing explosion.

Hope you have a happy day...