Originally Posted by coopah

Those are beauties. I made some for a friend's granddaughters using a winter print...hubs decided he liked them! Next time I'll use pints like you did.
I'm guessing you are making these for king size pillows. Jenny from Missouri Star on Youtube measures the main body at 27inches, the cuff at 9 inches with a 2 1/2 inch flange. My problem is finding fabric at 45 inches wide...much of it is now about 42 inches and taking off the selvedge makes it even less. Tough to get "fat" pillows to fit.
Anyway, those grands will think these are the best ever and they'll get tons of use. :-)

Originally Posted by coopah

Those are beauties. I made some for a friend's granddaughters using a winter print...hubs decided he liked them! Next time I'll use pints like you did.
I'm guessing you are making these for king size pillows. Jenny from Missouri Star on Youtube measures the main body at 27inches, the cuff at 9 inches with a 2 1/2 inch flange. My problem is finding fabric at 45 inches wide...much of it is now about 42 inches and taking off the selvedge makes it even less. Tough to get "fat" pillows to fit.
Anyway, those grands will think these are the best ever and they'll get tons of use. :-)

Originally Posted by KnitnutBZ

I sometimes leave the selvedge on and sew my seam on the selvedge line then trim the excess then I get the full width of the fabric and on pillowcases it won't matter so much.

Originally Posted by barnbum

Are they big enough if you do that? It's sure be much easier than going the other way.

Originally Posted by KnitnutBZ

Unless you have overly plump pillows they always have for me. I've made lots of them and no one has complained so far. That sounds like way too much work and fabric cost to widen them.