Ruffled Pillow Case Sewing Tutorial For Farmhouse Style Pillows

Love the look of those farmhouse style pillows? Making your own ruffled pillow case is so easy peasy, you’ll want to make tons of these shabby chic pillows! Just remember: sharing is caring so don’t keep them all for yourself! Your friends will be thrilled to display some of your gorgeous handmade farmhouse pillow covers in their homes!

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As you may remember I’m in the process of redesigning Ellie’s room (as I’ve mentioned this when I made this ruffled bed skirt for her room). Since then I made the bed sheet and the duvet cover for the same bed and now it was time for the pillows and this ruffled pillow case tutorial.

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I’m very fond to farmhouse decor and I find it super easy to achieve with just a few simple touches, like ruffles and linen. All the lines in Ellie’s room are simple and neutral but I was afraid if I keep following the same line the room will look boring and totally not appropriate for a girl her age. And I decided to go with ruffles for the bed which is the center of the room. So at this point I got ruffle pillowcases, ruffled bed sheet, ruffled bed skirt and the next project will be…haven’t you guessed yet? A ruffled bed throw.

This ruffled pillow case tutorial is so easy and simple I can barely call it a tutorial. The pillows look so adorable and I love the clean, crisp sense I get every time I look at the bed. It’s sweet but not overly sweet! It’s shabby chic but not too much, it’s farmhouse but still modern. Maybe I’m wrong though I’m no interior designer but to me this room is the perfect balance between modern and rustic decor without a lot of effort.

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I made this tutorial for ruffled pillow case but you can easily use the same steps to make ruffled pillow shams. Don’t know the difference? To be fair it’s not much of a difference but it seems that you sleep on pillow covers while pillow shams are used as decorative pieces on pillows you don’t sleep on. So a pillow sham is the princess while the pillow cover is the peasant lol Perfect for my farmhouse style pillows idea, right?

This ruffled pillow case is very easy simple and pretty quick to put together. The only hard thing I found is fraying the edges on the pillows and ruffles. So the first pillow case was a bit of a nightmare but I did find a solution after taking a moment to reflect on my project. I remembered mom saying linen is the easiest to cut straight because you can just rip it right on the grain.

So I decided to rip the fabric and you know what? Mom was right! (but let’s make this our secret). The fabric ripped straight o the grain so I got super straight strips and the ripping got me a nice frayed edge that I was then able to fray a little more by just pulling a couple of more threads from the edges. After this, the other three pillows where nothing but a breeze!

This ruffled pillow case tutorial is for an envelope pillowcase. The top and the bottom seams of the pillowcase are enclosed in the pillowcase and you’ll need to finish with a serger or a zig zag stitch. The sides of the pillow case are sewn with the fabric right side out so the seam is exposed to the outside and the edges are a bit frayed, to match the ruffles.