How To Add A Zipper To A Pillow Cover

Demand to set a broken zipper or add a attachment to a pillow or garment after the sewing is washed? No trouble.

Hither how to practise it, even if you lot're not an experienced sewer.

Easy DIY: How To Add Or Repair A Zipper

I am a very impulsive crafter.

I'thou all about the endgame.

I get an idea in my head, want it washed immediately and swoop in without really thinking all of the steps through.

I sew without patterns, cook without recipes and create on the fly.

Of grade, that method has many obvious pitfalls and I often find myself at a creative impasse. When that happens, I either cheat to brand information technology all work out or I walk away.

I go out information technology lonely and deal with it when I have more patience.

Well, today was a more patience kind of day.

I decided it was time to fix a mess I made a long fourth dimension ago and I added a zipper to a pillow after I had already sewn most of it.

Yup. It was a major crafting blunder and information technology has been bothering me for over a year.

I merely had no desire to become in and tackle information technology, simply I am so glad that I did.

You see, I was living a creative lie. Final week, when I showed you all of my pretty pillows, I bet y'all didn't know that i of them was really very incomplete.

White couch with floral and chicken pillows

The large red 1 was supposed to be an envelope style cover, but the pattern was such that the pheasants needed to be center stage and I didn't take enough yardage to do that.

That fact was not apparent to me until later my kickoff cutting.

Uh-oh. Groovy planning, huh?

hand holding fabric open with pillow form inside

The open bottom has been a sore point for far to long, but zippers take ever intimidated me.

I didn't know where to begin. Installation is a technical process and I'm a novice, a cocky taught seamstress. I basically wing it every time I pick up a needle and thread.

It always amazes me that a sewing tutorial is my most popular post.

I'm also lazy.

I don't know what the different anxiety do (and I don't want to know), I only alter the bobbin if I absolutely can't get away with using the white thread that lives in there and my seams are never straight.

And if they are, information technology's luck. Non skill.

But today, I decided that I would read the parcel instructions and figure this attachment affair out, because I am tired of looking at pillows like this...

Showing the opening of a plaid bolster pillow cover

And information technology would exist nice to accept some other option abreast the trusted envelope method or the stitch it up past hand fashion.

Arrows showing seams of envelope pillow and standard sewn pillow covers

Turns out, adding a zipper after the fact was easier than I idea and if I tin can practice it, anyone can. Trust me.

Oh and by the way, if you have a garment or a piece of upholstery with a broken zipper, this method would work to replace it.

Yous just need to rip out the old before installing the new.

Here's how to add or repair a zipper.

Stride 1. I began by sewing up the ends of my pillow, to create an opening that was just large plenty for my attachment.

Stride 2. I placed the zipper on the open seam of the pillow and so marked the ends with pins.

Red pillow on a couch with cover turned inside out to add a zipper

Pace 3. And then I stitched from the corners of the pillows in to the pin. It created an opening just large plenty for the zipper to fit.

Step 4. Then, with the attachment airtight up, I placed it face down on the inside (wrong side) of the textile and pinned information technology in identify.

I but pinned information technology to Ane SIDE of the open up seam.

Sewing Tutorial How To Add A Zipper hand holding zipper in place

Pace 5. Then I stitched the zipper to the seam.

Like I said, no fancy footwork or machine feet here. I used my bones pes and sewed the zipper in place.

The needle was placed as shut to the zipper metal as I could get it and the foot just rode happily on top of the zipper itself.

No problem.

Red pillow cover moving through a sewing machine to attach zipper

This is how it looked from the right side of the pillow when I was washed stitching it in place. It is airtight.

Hand holding zipper in place on red pillow cover

Step 6. Ok, now in order to sew the other side, I had to unzip or open the zipper up. And then I pinned information technology to the finished seam in exactly the aforementioned way I had just done it on the kickoff side.

Open Zipper shown To Add It To A Finished Product

Step 7. And so I repeated the stitching process on this side.

Sewing a zipper with a machine, pins in place on one side of open zipper

And my zipper was in identify. I turned the cover back, right side out, stuffed the pillow within and zipped it up!

Piece of cake peasy. I honestly don't know why I waited so long to practice this and why I was so afraid in the first identify.

I recollect I'm going to be calculation zippers to everything now.

Red pillow cover with red zipper in place

And...having seen the "right" fashion to make a pillow with a zipper, which involves all that proper pes talk and basting requirements, I think I'll stick with my cheating ways.

Even though I stumbled my way through.

It had a happy ending.

Nil!

I cheat a lot. Check these out!

Patchwork chair skirt in country kitchen