did you do any machine trapunto with those bright threads?
i reckon that would look super on one side.
i like different types of covers.
sometimes, i think its called a flange? if i do four sides i
mitre the corners
but sometimes only flange two ends.
i hate putting zippers in so i prefer doing the double flap,
tho guess that wont work when you actually want to see
either side as the mood takes you.
anyhow, just me rambling againk, got up too early and the
brain is slow today to get a move on.
got pix of your pillows yet?
i love pillow covers too. a great way to change the whole
mood of the room in an instant.
groggy in the south pacific,
jeanne

"Mary" wrote...
I am finishing a pair of pillow covers, and think they're
going to be
very nice! A pair of pillows came with my new sofa, and
they are a
great size and very comfortable. However, they are really
ugly and
not washable, so I measured them carefully, got out the
wonderful
stack of stencils I have tucked away, and designed covers.
Each side
of each pillow will have white fabric stitched with a
brightly colored
thread in an ornate whole-cloth style pattern. The
patterns are all
different, of course, as are the thread colors. I am
using bias
binding tape to edge each piece, and will stitch together
three sides
and add a matching zipper to the fourth side. One pillow
will have
burnt red edging, and the other hunter green since I had
that bias
tape on hand and even had matching zippers -- I suspect
that stuff
came from my late mother's miscellaneous sewing stuff.
Anyhow, the
sofa will certainly look nicer with those ugly pillows
covered! I do
a fair amount of whole-cloth quilting using colored
threads, and
always make a pillow cover to test out thread colors,
since some look
great and others pretty miserable and a sample is really
the only way
to know for sure. And I have found it uses up some of
the fairly
unattractive cotton fabrics to use them for the inside of
pillow
covers. By next week the sofa will look pretty good!