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What is the best way to make pillowcases with crocheted edging?
My sister is getting married and I was thinking about crocheting her some household items. I have never made pillowcases with edging before, but I'd like to try. Is it better to make the edging and sew it on, or to actually crochet into the fabric? I have several vintage edging pattern books, but none say how you get the edging on the pillow. Also, when one gives such pillowcases is there supposed to be a matching sheet or do the pillowcases stand alone? Thanks in advance for the advice!!!
Ooh, i love the vintage edging books. I just bought a few the other day to do pillows as well.
What i did for the first one was to crochet the edging and then take a thread that matches and stitch them very carefully around the wide hem on the pillowcase. Mine is not hanging free off the edge of the pillow, its more laying on the wide seam and its sewed at both the top and the bottom of the edging, if that makes sense. Its more like an applique.
That actually took me longer than the crocheting, when you consider that i washed and ironed the pillowcases, washed and ironed the edging (i was afraid that it might block bigger than i originally planned on), pinned it to the pillowcase, and then was VERY careful about making my stitches small and strong, but still pretty from both sides.
I might do the sheets too, actually, on the top hem i was thinking about doing the edging there too, if i have the time. Otherwise I did buy the matching sheets.
If i ever did this for myself I'd be tempted to do the bed skirt, too, but I'd chose a pattern that isn't as fussy, I'd want it to be more simple.
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