CONKERR CANCER - A Case for Smiles! Making life brighter for children with life changing illnesses and injuries
   
 

   
    Pillowcase Construction
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  • Use cheery fabrics for kids – colorful and fun as possible
  • Remember many patients are adolescent boys and girls, we always need pillowcases appropriate to teenagers 
  • Cotton, flannel or polarfleece only
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Standard Pillowcase
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Polar Fleece Pillowcase
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Supplies:

  • 3/4 yard of fabric for pillowcase
  • 1/3 yard of fabric for border of pillowcase

Sewing Instructions:

  1. Cut the body of the case 26 1/2″ x 40 1/2″ and the border 10 1/2″ x 40 1/2″.
  2. Fold the border in half lengthwise, with the wrong sides together, and press.
  3. Place the right side of the border on the right side of the body of the case. Stitch together using a 1/2″ seam allowance.
  4. Place right sides of the pillowcase together. Stitch down the side and across the bottom. Turn to the right side and press.

    NOTE: Make sure to wash the fabric for the protection of the children with suppressed immunity. In addition, please place each pillowcase in its own ziplock bag.

Supplies:

  • 7/8 yard polar fleece fabric
     

Sewing Instructions:

  1. Cut a 30″ x 60″ rectangle of fabric (the bolt of fabric should be 60″ wide).
  2. Fold the fabric so that the wrong sides face each other and that you have a 30” x 30″ square once folded.
  3. Draw a light line 5″ from the edge with chalk or pencil.  The line should be drawn on the two sides that are neither the fold nor the selvage:
  4. Mark strips for fringe 3/4″ apart then cut strips up to the marked line along each edge.
  5. With the strips lying on top of each other, tie the two strips together in a single knot as shown below:

    NOTE: Make sure to wash the fabric for the protection of the children with suppressed immunity. In addition, please place each pillowcase in its own ziplock bag.
 
 

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