Applique Pillowcase

So as stated before I have been super busy with Gregory's birthday coming up in just over 2 months now.  Today I'm going to show you birthday gift #1 that I have completed.  I'm so excited to share with you a pillowcase I made to go with the bedroom linens I'm making for Gregory.  I'm still not sure at what point he is supposed to move up to a toddler bed but hey...the crib is the same size so he can start useing them whenever!  I showed you where I made Gregory a pillow and pillowcase with matching fleece blanket for Gregory for Christmas here.  Well this pillowcase will fit that pillow.  I had not done an Applique before this Applique Pillowcase but I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was....I made it into a scarey monster in my head!!!

So here we go......

I made this pillowcase at the same time I made the Mickey Mouse fabric pillowcase...which was in like September or something so I wasn't blogging then and made a mistake....  which was making it before I did the Applique I planned to do on it.  Oh well...this story does have a happy ending anyways!

Unlike some of you lucky ducks I do not have any fancy gadgets like cricuts.  I have a computer w/ a printer...so I printed out the letters + some extras that I was going to need to spell out "Gregory" onto cardstock paper.

I pulled out my awesome Xacto knife kit my hubby got me for Christmas and cut the letters out of the cardstock.

Because this was my first Applique I was scared I would mess up the pillowcase if I tried to put the letters directly onto the pillowcase...this fear was a lot in part to the fact that I realized I should have done the Applique before putting the pillowcase together and b/c in my mind Appliques were super scarey anyways!  So I decided to take a piece of the Mickey Mouse fabric and putting the applique onto it and then putting that onto the pillowcase.  In hindsight I made things more difficult by doing this.  I should have just put the Applique directly onto the pillowcase b/c it was so easy but then again...it turns out pretty good in the end!

Anyways...I traced the cardstock letters onto the white fabric I was useing to do the Appliques and then cut those out w/ scissors....I tried to use the xacto knife to do this but scissors worked better w/ the fabric.

I put iron on adhesive on the letters and then ironed them onto the Mickey fabric....

I started sewing w/ a zigzag

After I got all the letter appliques on I then placed the fabric onto the pillowcase

The end result!  I'm so happy with it!  I did run into some issues sewing the square piece onto the pillowcase...couldn't make certain turns.  But I think it all worked out in the end!  It's going to look great!



Inspired by Gregory's 2nd Birthday!


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