Making a flanged Euro sham with zipper
This was a project for one of my designers, Bruce Palmer LLC in which I was working with a gorgeous silk and embroidered overlay fabric from Kravet. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get a project too far and between to remember how I did it the last time, so I decided that this time I would take pictures to jar my memory!
What you are looking at here is the back section cut out and serged all around the edges and then the flange piece cut out and serged on all edges. My zipper is sandwiched between the two pieces and ready to be sewn.
This picture shows the back of the sham with all four flanges sewn at the sides. The bottom right corner is a finished miter and the other corners are waiting to be mitered. You can see where the zipper is located between the back and flange. Do this for the front as well but omit the zipper and you’re ready to sew the front to the back.
Here is a close up of the zipper inserted.
After sewing the front and back together, turn inside out and press. Then stitch in the ditch at the inner flange seams. You now have a finished sham with a zipper so you can stuff with a down/feather insert.
This is the finished back of the sham showing zipper placed at flange seam. It will be hidden when the pillow is placed upright and laying on bottom flange on bed.
Happy Sewing!
Dana DiCicco said:
Maybe not happy sewing but challenging sewing! Looks great!
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Rebecca Deming Rumpf said:
Gorgeous! I’m so tempted to send a link to the workroom who tried to tell me that there was no way to put a zipper in a flanged pillow… Maybe no EASY way to do it, but talented professionals like you make it LOOK easy. Thanks for sharing!
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Tammi said:
Thanks Rebecca and Dana! The word “NO” doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. I will figure it out and figure it out before that word is uttered from these lips!
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Tammy@InStitches said:
This is good to know !
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Jackie Von Tobel said:
NICE!!! Love this technique
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Nouveau Stitch said:
I know what you mean about forgetting how when you make them only so often. Sometimes I have to think and think before it clicks! I’ve decided it’s much quicker to keep an instruction sheet at hand so this tute will serve that purpose.
Thanks so much!
Ellen
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Barbara Holley said:
Thank you for sharing this information. We’ve just completed some shams that have flanges and we used invisible dress zippers. They came out beautiful, but were so-o difficult to “stitch in the didch, since we used batting between the layers. I’m going to keep your instructions.
Thank you for sharing. You are great!
Barbara
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Tammi said:
Hi Barbara!
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Yes, stitching the two layers together in the ditch is not for the faint hearted! Especially because this fabric had the thin gauzy embroidered layer on top that wanted to move all over the place.
I like the fact that you used the invisible zipper and I contemplated that for this project but the layers were not cooperating so I felt it best to do a napped zipper instead.
So glad my directions will be used for your future projects!
Happy sewing!
Tammi
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