Tucked Herringbone Pillow

The pillows in my bedroom are in need of a makeover.  Two of them do not have covers--and one is "leaking" stuffing.  So when Caroline over at Atelier Caroline posted the tutorial on how to sew this pillow I was pretty excited and knew I wanted to try it out.

 I found some pillowcases on clearance at Target (half of what the price tag says.)  I used one of the pillowcases for this project.  First I cut off the side seams.  The bottom did not have a seam, I left it as one long piece of materail.  Starting at one end I measured just like the tutorial says to--with one exception.  Instead of making all of my lines the same distance apart I did some at 1.5 inches and some at 1.  I only did this on the horizontal lines.  The vertical lines were all 1.5 inches apart.  Next I used the rest of the pillowcase to make the new pillowcase.

 Can you see how some of the pleats are close together?

I did not press each pleat--because it is 100% cotton I didn't want it to be too rigid.

 While I was taking pictures I looked out the window and saw this.  The wind changed last night and the cold weather has arrived.

 This is not a hard project, just a little time consuming.

Doesn't it look nice on my bed?  Now I need to make another pillowcase for the other "caseless" pillow on my bed.