Art-ology

Your room may appear perfect, but aren’t you forgetting something important? Are your pillows matching with your room decoration? If not, then why not make decorator covers that can match with your bedroom or living room. You can use a couple of complicated or easy patterns according to your wish. The final step, however, is stitching up the open area by stitching it. The gap is concealed by the hand blind stitch, which only needs hand and you don’t need to fix sewing machines for the reason. The proper stitches must not be seen on the pillow seam, which elaborates the name of this type of stitching. Now you are spared from sewing machine repair as you won’t need those tools for this type of stitching.

First of all let’s have a look on what the requirements for hand blind stitch are. There is not a lot of stuff to collect. All you need is a thread of the similar color as the pillow, needle, scissors along with an iron. In order to give finishing touches to your pillow, apply the hand blind stitch with the following steps:

• You need to press under the corners of the fabric around the gap. The ideal time to do this is the moment you are about to keep the pillow seam over the pillow. The pressed areas will assist you in stitching.

• Then you need to cut a thread that is about 15 inches long. Pass the thread through the needle’s eye in order to have a double thread with equal lengths, then fasten the termini of the thread by two knots.

• Keep your pillow on your knee with the gap open towards you. Pass the needle through the clothe on one place and draw it along the other side of the gap. Make certain to pull out the needle from the point where you pressed the clothe. This way, you can hide the knot of thread and then continue stitching the clothe at the right end of the opening.

• Afterwards, make a little stitch with the needle on the opposite side of the fabric, right under the press line on the clothe. Stitch right across the opening such that the fabric joins and makes almost 1/8 inch long stitch.

• Move your needle to one stitch back on the original side

of the fabric to the place where you pressed. In doing so, remember to make the stitch across the opening again.

• Continue with the stitching of both ends of the clothe across the opening. It must be accomplished in a back and forth movement across the opening until you make it shut.

• Finally, fasten a knot on the needle’s termini of the thread such that it rests on the fabric. Pass the needle in the pillow to create an inch long stitch and bring the needle back again. Cut the thread slightly over the fabric. The final stitch conceals your knot invisibly into the pillow.

Once you have a ornamented pillow on your bed side, all you need to give is a hand blind stitch to give it a few final touches.