My Favorite Zippers to Use on my Quilted Pillows

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It seems as though I notice more and more details in my sewing projects as I learn and grow in my skills. Maybe the basics are so basic now that I have mental margin to pay attention to the details.

Over time I’ve learned to sew faster and more accurate. Now I can devote time to fixing small errors or taking extra time to notice minuscule inaccuracies. None of this is because I’m an expert sewer. I’ve just learned a bit over the last ten years. I’ve been a slow learner, but I can tell I’ve improved.

Maybe let this encourage you to keep going and keep trying. If you find yourself frustrated amidst sewing projects often, work a little here and there. I’ve learned that sewing for fifteen minutes a day can eventually accomplish a LOT over the course of a few years.

One of those skills I’ve continued to hone is the steps to sewing a zipper into my pillow covers. I’ve sewn quite a few zippers over the last five years. I have an older post on how to sew a zipper into a pillow cover. While I still use the same basic process, I have added a few extra steps since then. (I will have a new tutorial in the coming weeks.) Much of this is the result of always attempting to improve a product I sell to people. I also think, like I said above, it’s been easier to hone additional skills since the basics of sewing have become quite simple to me.

(It’s taken me ten years to hone the basic skills, but alas, I feel much more confident with the elementaries of sewing. See this post or this post to understand more of my extraordinarily s l o w  journey of learning to quilt.)

If you have followed me for any length of time, you may have noticed that I really really enjoy sewing quilted pillow covers. When I stock my Etsy Shop, it is almost always with quilted pillow covers.

Every one of my quilted pillow covers comes with a zipper. I’ve used the same zippers for quite sometime, and I haven’t run into any troubles yet. I like to buy the fourteen inch zipper length. They fit my 17 to 19 inch pillow covers well.

For the last couple years, I’ve used these simple white zippers. I have always bought them off of Amazon. They are plastic. They are simple. And they are a pure white. They’ve been perfect for me, and I think they reflect my simple style well.

I had recently set out on a search to find the perfect metal zipper. This all started because I wanted to try sewing a leather pillow. I thought a nice camel colored leather plus a metal zipper would be a really great combination. I have not sewn a leather pillow yet, but I have found the perfect metal zipper.

They are definitely more expensive than my simple white plastic zippers, but I really like using these zippers for thicker mediums of fabrics.

I found these zippers from Zipit on Etsy. The shipping was fast, and I had no problems arise from their customer service. I think the white zippers are great for the low volume quilting cottons that I am often drawn to, but I think these metal zippers are so perfect for thicker mediums. This fabric is barkcloth from the Outback Wife fabric line by Gertrude Made. These zippers are not a pure white. The fabric around the metal zipper is a nice creamy off white.

These zippers would also pair well with denim or linen.

As you continue growing your skills and possibly trespassing into the realm of sewing with zippers, these are two that have served me well! 🙂