This handy pillowcase for a travel-size pillow incorporates a pocket to keep the pillow form in place. The pillowcase front is a perfect platform for embroidered embellishments.

Supplies 3/4 yard fabric, 45” wide Floriani Template Tearaway Floriani Heat N Sta Threads for embroidery and sewing 12” x 16” pillow form Sweetheart Borders and Coordinates from My Fair Lady Designs Monogram alphabet of your choice

Begin by printing full size templates of the embroidery designs and a single initial from your monogram font on Floriani Template Tearaway. Be sure to indicate the horizontal and vertical centerlines on each template. Trim each template just outside the design area. The templates are especially useful if you are making the project with a 4” embroidery hoop; the main design has been rotated 45º so it fits within the small hoop without a great reduction in the design size.

The templates are also useful for locating a script initial within the embroidered frame, since matching the center points of the initial and frame does not always create a visually pleasing arrangement.

Cut a 13” x 20” rectangle for the pillowcase front and a 13” x 24” rectangle for the pillowcase back.

Cut a piece of Floriani Heat N Sta about 4” wider than the pillowcase fabric, or big enough to fill a large hoop. Fuse the stabilizer to the fabric wrong side at one short end of the pillowcase front so the stabilizer extends 2” beyond the fabric at the sides. (The additional stabilizer allows hooping near the fabric edges.)

With a removable marker, draw a line on the pillowcase front 5” from the stabilized short end. This is the base line (not the centerline) for the central embroidery. Also draw a line along the vertical center of the pillowcase front.

Remove the protective paper backing and position the templates on the marked fabric, using the centerline and baseline as guides. The center motif sits on the baseline, while the side motifs extend 1/8" below it.