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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:40 pm
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Okay, so I'm not the best sewer in the world. I can't figure out how to even use my sewing machine... so I'm doing this by hand. Just so you know my skills are.. lacking.
A friend asked me to make him some pillow covers for throw pillows. They are oversized... the pillows are for guests to lay against while at his place, and also for his chihuahuas to sleep on if they feel like it.
The material is cut to match the size needed for the pillows, but, the pillows are a size that they apparently don't make zippers for (or at least, none of the stores in our area know about a size for) so... rather than get a zipper that's too short to do any good, the zippers he got are about 3 inches too long.
So, I'm asking for advice on this. My obvious choices are to a) cut the zipper to the needed length, which I don't know how to do properly or to b) wrap the zipper so that it is the full length of the top and then wraps around down the connecting side a little, which I think would be easier, but I'm not sure how to wrap it with the seam...
Here's what I'm doing... I'm folding the material over a little and sewing it, to create a hem (is that the right word?) so that there's no change of raveling. Which is probably over-kill because the material is kinda like that flannely fleecey (watch the technical words fly!) stuff they make throw blankets out of. So the corners are more square than rounded, and I'm not sure how to wrap the zipper, since it will curve, and I need to to curve in a way that it won't pop open when people are sitting and laying on it.
I hope that makes sense.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:10 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:26 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:42 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:33 pm
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