Very easy to do – you basically crochet a long strip of fabric 2.5 times the height of your pillow, fold it up and stitch the edges together to make an envelope….
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- 01 – fabric 2.5 x length of pillow
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- 02 – sc border, and placing marker
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- 03 – sl st edges tog
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- 04 – add button
- Crochet a piece of fabric the same length as your pillow and 2.5 times the height. You can use virtually any stitch pattern – I used the “interlocking rows” stitch.
- You want the fabric to fully wrap around the pillow then overlap by approximately half the height. Once you have the correct size, make an sc border around the long side edge, the bottom edge, and other long side edge of the fabric. End off all yarns and weave in all ends. Then wrap the fabric around the pillow, and put a marker in the stitch where the bottom edge will meet up with the side edge.
- Remove the pillow, and fold the fabric how it will go when it’s on the pillow (like an envelope), then sl st the edges together beginning at the marker. I like to do “sl st 1, ch 1” – it makes a prettier edging.
Repeat on the other side. - Pop the pillow inside the case, and sew on a button.
Using the interlocking rows stitch, the last row conveniently had large spaces that made perfect button holes – but you can easily crochet on a button loop if needed.
