{"id":66494,"date":"2025-05-06T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66494"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:16:23","slug":"christmas-pillowcases-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/christmas-pillowcases-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Pillowcases Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, so far May seems to be all about pillowcases!<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/adventure-pillowcase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminding myself<\/a> of the Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/thinking-about-christmas-pillowcases-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pillowcase project<\/a> on which I want to work, I finally made time to check my stock of Christmas fabric. Fortunately, I have 8 yards I can use, though I may need to find some cuff fabric. I&#8217;ll mix and match a bit, but I may not have enough.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66501\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250426_124051_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66501\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250426_124051_wm-sm-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"2025 Pillowcase project fabrics\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250426_124051_wm-sm-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250426_124051_wm-sm-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250426_124051_wm-sm.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2025 Pillowcase project fabrics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fabrics I have are more subtle than I usually use for Christmas pillowcases. I want to use fabric I have, however, so these are the choices.<\/p>\n<p>The mermaid fabric is the one girly fabric I have, so I&#8217;ll have to decide which of the two girls get it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Wash the fabric<\/li>\n<li>Cut pillowcase bodies<\/li>\n<li>Decide on cuffs<\/li>\n<li>Sew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll have to think about Christmas pillowcases for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/angel-family-pillowcases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel family<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Hooray for progress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, so far May seems to be all about pillowcases! After reminding myself of the Christmas pillowcase project on which I want to work, I finally made time to check my stock of Christmas fabric. Fortunately, I have 8 yards I can use, though I may need to find some cuff fabric. I&#8217;ll mix and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/christmas-pillowcases-redux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Pillowcases Redux&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[8,316,201],"class_list":["post-66494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","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\/66494","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=66494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66564,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions\/66564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}