Cross Stitch Pillow Sham!

For this month’s pillow sham I wanted to cross stitch one of my Mom’s favorite scriptures.  

I went to my stash of craft books that I bought at a second hand book store and found the picture of the house. 

After searching some more I found a fun font to go with my house.  I stitched Joshua 24:15 “...As for me and my house we will serve the Lord” and a cute little house to go with the saying.  

Next, I sewed the saying onto the middle of a blue and white piece of fabric that I had cut to 14”x18”.  

Then, I cut two rectangles measuring 14”x11”.  Hemed one side of each of the rectangles measuring so that they measure when hemmed 9 ¼”.  With right sides facing together I laid the hemmed rectangles so that they slightly overlapped in the middle on top of pinwheel square. Then, I pined and sewed ¼” seam all the way around the edges.  

 I turn sham right side out placed a 12"x 16" inch pillow in the sham.