{"id":38616,"date":"2017-10-28T07:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=38616"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:17:32","slug":"pillowcases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/pillowcases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillowcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a binge of pillowcase making. I bought a number of pieces of fabric in the past few weeks to make pillowcases and I started right before I didn&#8217;t have time to sew.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38599\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743.-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bento Box Pillowcases\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743.-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743.-768x989.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743.-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wp-1508889382743.-1200x1545.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bento Box Pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First, I washed all the new fabric, then ironed it while I was on the phone (great activity for talking on the phone). After searching out my file of directions, I made a couple for the YM with the Bento Box fabric I bought for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to highlight the green in the print. Since there is a lot of pink in the print (raw fish, after all), I didn&#8217;t want that to be the focus. Not very manly in this day and age, thus the green. YM isn&#8217;t particularly fond of green, but he doesn&#8217;t dislike it either. My pillowcases have a reputation of being awesome among his friends, so I know he will use them. I think they like the high thread count.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t put trim on, though my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/pillowcase-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pillowcase guide<\/a> says to do so, because it adds an extra crease to the cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>I dug up some pillowcase fabric I bought some time ago and will work on that one plus others over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a binge of pillowcase making. I bought a number of pieces of fabric in the past few weeks to make pillowcases and I started right before I didn&#8217;t have time to sew. First, I washed all the new fabric, then ironed it while I was on the phone (great activity for talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/pillowcases-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pillowcases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[434],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-38616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-pillowcases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}