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| Amanda Thomas Photography |
Now the muggy summer months are over and we sink into a cosy, autumnal slump, it's time for my hair to take another beating from the elements. Wind and rain are as bad as humidity and beating sunlight, so I thought it's high time I revisited one of most popular fashion fixes from last year; the silk scarf pillow. Inspired by Harpers Bazaar's tips to tame frizzy hair, I jumped at the chance of a wallet friendly tip. Et voila, the Silk Scarf Pillow Fashion Fix.
The biggest money saver on this is to use a silk scarf rather than fork out for metres of silk. They are easily sourced in local charity shops as I don't tend to find 100% silk content ones in the highstreet stores
You will need:
- A plain pillow case
- Enough silk to cover one side
- sewing machine
- dressmaking scissors
- dressmaking pins
- tailor's chalk
How to do it:
- Place your pillowcase right sides together on top of the silk and use as a template. Draw around on the silk using tailor's chalk, leaving 1.5cm seam allowance. Cut out.
- unpick or cut out one side of the pillow case. (retain the rectangle that has the folded over inner piece that keeps the pillow in place)
- place the pillow rectangle and the silk rectangle right sides together and pin around 3 sides leaving the opening unpinned.
- Machine sew a running stitch all around the pinned sides.
- trim the edges and corners, turn inside out and press.
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| Amanda Thomas Photography |
