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sugarspiceandcursewords:
I have a bad habit of clearance shopping and it sometimes results in me buying, say, a 90%-off TFA fabric shower curtain simply because it prominently features Poe. The kids’ bathroom is finally non-cartoony, so I’m aiming to turn it into a pillowcase for my body pillow. Twist: I kinda don’t really know how to use my sewing machine. @bomberqueen17, can I just cut two equal pieces slightly oversized, stitch them on three sides with the wrong sides together, and turn it inside out?
That is exactly how you do.
I just did a quick Google search for body pillow sewing tutorial just to see if I could find one that would give more detailed advice more succinctly but Christ almighty, sewing blogs are annoying lately. Suffice to say, yeah; buy a premade form, or just steal the stuffing out of old pillows, or just make the thing and stuff it, it’s up to you, you almost can’t screw this up. The first result looked interesting because it was a pattern with pockets, which seemed handy, but then, I’m a grown-ass woman with a bedside table so honestly why do I need pockets in a body pillow, that just seems complicated.
My only thought is to leave one end open, and hemmed (make it two to three inches longer than the pillow form, in that case) so that you could change the pillowcase or wash it or whatever. That’s the deluxe level on that bad boy. But I have no idea how well fabric shower curtains launder anyway.
(I’m jealous of your shower curtain but not really, I have nowhere to use a shower curtain except as decor in the yurt and I hadn’t planned on that. Although a water-resistant drapery would be damn handy.)
God, that jaw.
sugarspiceandcursewords:
I have a bad habit of clearance shopping and it sometimes results in me buying, say, a 90%-off TFA fabric shower curtain simply because it prominently features Poe. The kids’ bathroom is finally non-cartoony, so I’m aiming to turn it into a pillowcase for my body pillow. Twist: I kinda don’t really know how to use my sewing machine. @bomberqueen17, can I just cut two equal pieces slightly oversized, stitch them on three sides with the wrong sides together, and turn it inside out?
That is exactly how you do.
I just did a quick Google search for body pillow sewing tutorial just to see if I could find one that would give more detailed advice more succinctly but Christ almighty, sewing blogs are annoying lately. Suffice to say, yeah; buy a premade form, or just steal the stuffing out of old pillows, or just make the thing and stuff it, it’s up to you, you almost can’t screw this up. The first result looked interesting because it was a pattern with pockets, which seemed handy, but then, I’m a grown-ass woman with a bedside table so honestly why do I need pockets in a body pillow, that just seems complicated.
My only thought is to leave one end open, and hemmed (make it two to three inches longer than the pillow form, in that case) so that you could change the pillowcase or wash it or whatever. That’s the deluxe level on that bad boy. But I have no idea how well fabric shower curtains launder anyway.
(I’m jealous of your shower curtain but not really, I have nowhere to use a shower curtain except as decor in the yurt and I hadn’t planned on that. Although a water-resistant drapery would be damn handy.)
God, that jaw.
