A little pillow talk…sham on you!

Once upon a pillow, I decided it was time to dress up the bed. I decided on shams and it gave me pause to think. What exactly is a “sham”.  Further, I realized that there are shams, and there are more shames. Like Bubba Gump shrimp, you’ve got European shams, king shams, cushion shams, basic pillow shams…sham, sham, sham shammity sham! In my mind they’re all just pillows, and I had simply merged them into my brain as one lump sum. Well, they’re not, apparently.

Sham-WOW! Make a Pillow Sham in Under an Hour

It started with an Elsa event. Elsa, my Huskie mix, has many such “events” that usually involve tearing something up that is fluffy. This time, it was a pillow sham. Thankfully not the pillow, just the sham. Which didn’t really matter though. I just bought those shams for a staging. Now I had only one and no way to repair it since the machine was packed. Elsa is fortunate that she has cute going for her… So flash forward, I still have no matching shams. I could just repair the torn one. But to be honest, sometimes a repair job…

Cheater, cheater pillow sham

Maybe cheater, cheater pillow sham doesn’t have the same ring as cheater, cheater pumpkin eater, but making a flanged sham in this manner is so easy, you almost feel like you cheated. This method uses just one big piece of fabric for both the pillow part and the flanges. Another method would be to make the flanges separately and miter the corners. I will do one of those soon. I used the Dimples fabric, and it’s quite thick. I felt that mitered corners and extra seams would involve too much bulk, so I chose the cheater, cheater method for this…