I went over to my niece’s house to drop off the pillowcase I made for my nephew. While I was there I found that Michaela didn’t have her Christmas pillowcase (another to do on my list). We determined that it probably still lived at her parents’ house. In the process of figuring this out, she brought out the Tufted Tweets pillowcase. I made this pillowcase back in 2011! I found that the cuff was half ripped off.
WTH?
I suggested that next time she let me know before things got really bad and took the pillowcase home to repair, which means that I needed to completely remake it. If the fabric weren’t so great, I would have just made her a new one. I love the Tufted Tweets fabric and you can’t get it any more.
This repair job is definitely a learning experience. This is one of the my older pillowcases, so I am hoping that the newer ones don’t wear in the same way.
All of the edges are unraveled. There was sort of a French seam – an early effort – so this was kind of surprising.
What was not surprising was the color fading. It happens when quilting fabric is used and this pillowcase is definitely a favorite, thus used.
As an aside, the stitch quality was really good on this pillowcase. I used my old Janome 9k machine. The stitch quality has been awful on my 6600 lately, so I really noticed the difference.
