i have a knitted project which I want to sew on to a pillow cover which has a zipper. The only thing I could come up with was to pin the border on the front of the cover. Turn it inside out and do a running stitch with a needle and yarn along the edge that is pinned. Any thoughts? The attached photo is the project on a black pillow cover
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Wow, what an achievement, your dog portrait looks fabulous!
I think this would look really great with a decorative stitch to attach it and to give the transition from knitted fabric to cushion cover a overall designer finish.
Blanket stitch or a decorative version of blanket stitch, would look lovely. You could consider using 2 or 3 of the colours in the knitted design to go around the edge several times, adding some decorative sewing to the cushion cover border too.
Something like this
The short, tall, short tall, version for instance can be done in 2 colours, one for the shorter stitch, one for the longer stitch. The triangle stitch is very attractive too and echoes the V shape of knit stitches so would look nice.
It looks good on the black cushion and i think it would look lovely with the dark grey/beige colour and the tan brown colour worked in large stitches across the border and cushion.
It might help to block the knitting first so it’s nice and flat and square, and in its finished size before sewing down.
It’s so great!
That sounds lovely! The challenge is to just sew the top of the cover and it seems really tricky to get my hand all the way in to stitch if that makes sense
Yes, it sounds tricky. Perhaps if you had the knit fabric tacked on so it doesn’t move, then use one of those bent tapestry needles which can be used just from the outside? I don’t know if bent is the right word, I’m rubbish at sewing and know very little on the subject! I do remember using a bent needle for embroidering ballet pointe shoes though and you can’t get inside the shoe so the needle did work just from outside.
Im so bad at sewing I’d need to mark out the cushion fabric with something like pins or taylors chalk so i knew exactly where to place the embroidery or blanket stitches.
Maybe a piece of cardboard or a plastic tub lid or clipboard could be inserted in the cover so that your needle is stopped by it to prevent accidentally hooking the lower layer?
You might be able to practise with a knitted swatch and some scrap fabric or something?
I wonder if knitting can be wonder-webbed? It would keep everything in place so you wouldn’t worry about it moving whilst also focusing on getting the needle just in the top layer of cushion. I don’t know if knitting works with wonderwebb though, it takes a hot iron which might damage the knitting.
Maybe others have ideas too. Like i said I’m rubbish at sewing, but I saw your lovely knitting and had to stop by to comment. My son has made a large crossstitch which he will be sewing onto a cushion cover with the same technique when it’s finished.
That is great advice! Will look for that needle or try putting something inside to stop needle from catching the other side!!