Hey Spanky, I'm passing you the quick trick for making piping/welting, you sound like you might need it! You sew a tube about 6" wide and 1/3 as long as you need in yardage. You sew it with the grain of the fabric, not on the bias. THEN....and here's the cool part, you mark a 45 degree angle starting on the bottom edge at the seam and then you just cut uphill along that angled line around the tube and around and around and around, keeping the angle consistent. When you finally slice your way out the other side you have 3" wide bias strips, yards long and already stitched together! It's brilliant and works like a charm. Save hours of pinning slices together and assembling them over and over like a robot. Try it!
Thanks, but...
...I know that one and have been tempted to use it but you end up with a lot more seams in the bias. I find I'm always using either a really smooth fabric where seams will be obvious, or a very fuzzy fabric where seams add a lot of bulk.
Twenty-seven years ago when I was just married, I was watching my dear aunt cut bias strips for a slipcover she was making. I told her about the bias tube trick that I'd seen in a book and she said, "Nah...too many seams." I think about her every time i cut bias strips.
Every once in awhile I pick a fabric that has a weave with a very obvious diagonal pattern that I can cut along. That makes me happy.
What I'd really like is if there was ready-made welt in interesting, quality fabrics. All I've ever found is icky chintz and heavy cotton twill in a few colors. OH well.
all the pillows that i ...
all the pillows that i have made up
i have been putting a cord around them , self cord, and different color cord
I did notice on a Eames collection piece that the emanes office put up charles and Ray had a bunch of pillows made up but they always did them knife edge with no weld cord,
I think these would look good in big pillows but in small pillows not to cool what do you think?
It depends
Depends on the look you want. I don't think the welt issues are the same with pillows as they are with upholstered furniture. Pillows look good either way most of the time.
What I love is the invisible zipper revolution. No more stitched fabric flanged that sort of cover the zipper but you can always see (and feel) a flash of teeth. Just that elegant little tab as the only clue that there's a zipper there.
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