July 22, 2010
Hide Your Pillow Line Of Stitching Gap With Hand Blind Stitch
Your room may look just right, but aren’t you ignoring something essential? Are your pillows going along with your room decoration? If not, then why not design decorator covers that can match with your bedroom or living room. You can try a couple of fancy or simple designs pertaining to your wish. The concluding step, however, is stitching up the open area by stitching it. The gap is covered by the hand blind stitch, which just needs hand and you don’t have to fix sewing machines for the reason. The proper stitches must be invisible on the pillow cover, which explains the name of this type of stitching. Now you are spared from sewing machine repair as you won’t require those gadgets for this type of stitching.
First of all let’s have a look on what the essentials for hand blind stitch are. There is not a lot of stuff to collect. All you require is a thread of the similar color as the pillow, needle, scissors along with an iron. In order to provide finishing touches to your pillow, apply the hand blind stitch with the following steps:
• You have to press beneath the edges of the cloth around the gap. The best time to do this is when you are about to keep the pillow covering over the pillow. The pressed regions will assist you in stitching.
• Then you have to get a thread of about 15 inches long. Pass the thread through the needle’s eye so that you have a double thread with same lengths, then fasten the ends of the thread by double knots.
• Place your pillow on your knee with the gap open towards you. Insert the needle through the fabric on one side and draw it along the other side of the opening. Make sure to pull out the needle from the spot where you pressed the fabric. This way, you can hide the knot of thread and afterwards continue stitching the fabric at the right end of the gap.
• After that, make a little stitch with the needle on the opposite side of the cloth, right under the press line on the fabric. Stitch right across the gap in a way that the material joins and creayes almost 1/8 inch long stitch.
• Move your needle a single stitch back on the first side
of the fabric at the spot where you pressed. While doing so, don’t forget to make the stitch through the gap again.
• Continue with the stitching of both ends of the fabric through the gap. It must be done in a back and forth direction through the gap until you seal it shut.
• Finally, fasten a knot on the needle’s termini of the thread in a way that it rests on the cover. Insert the needle in the pillow to create an inch long stitch then take the needle back again. Cut the thread slightly over the pillow cover. The final stitch conceals your knot invisibly into the pillow.
The moment you have a ornamented pillow by your side, all you have to do is a hand blind stitch to provide it a few final touches.










