Flannel Backing and Pillow Case

 I have bought a big piece of red/black flannel plaid for the backing at JoAnn's.  I bought 5.5 yards (I'll need to cut it in half and seam the middle), but when I opened it up to make the seam, I found out that the clerk at JoAnn's had measured it wrong!  Luckily, the mistake was in my favor, and I have almost 7 yards of fabric instead of 5.5!  I will have enough left over to make a pillow case to match the quilt!!  Whooo hoooo!

I cut off a yard of fabric for the pillow case, and looked in my box of flannel fabrics and found a beautiful red flannel and a light gray flannel left over from a previous quilt I had made.  PERFECT!  The pillow case will look something like this:

Because of all the backing fabric that I had extra, I was able to match the plaid, and the seam turned out so well that it is practically invisible.  I pinned the two pieces of the backing together almost like I pin a binding--poke the pin through the top, check the backside to see if it is aligned, and finish the pinning,  Move an inch, repeat the process.  So it was time consuming to do this, but well worth the effort.  I am very pleased too with this piece of flannel.  It's a good tight weave.  I have had flannel fabrics that frayed horribly, and this time I really got (more!) than my money's worth.  Here's the seam, if you can see it!