now I can not find where I read it. Thanks for any help. Hugs.

You will always have a perfect looking pillow or cushion cover if you put a slight curve on your corner and you will never have any daggie corners that flop. it doesn't have to be much of a curve. good luck and happy sewing.

http://sewing.about.com/od/techni...

This site gives you a visual about sewing points

Hope this helps
Cindy *4u

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by mops 06 Jul 2009

This is noice for collars and so on, but does not help for floppy corners.

Great question, I guess I must make mine rounded. The only really square one I made had a really wide cotton lace edging sewn in, and then that wasn't really square in the end because I didn't mitre the corners or anything. I like the idea of sewing batting in those corners, though, that way they're permanently stuffed. Good question, we all learned something!! Hugs, Marji

I use piping on mine and they come out pretty good each time.

I've been sewing for 30 years and I always sew a wad of batting at each corner as I am sewing the two pieces together.Just turn it right side out to check and if it isn't firm enough,,you sew in more. Using a pillow form or stuffing the pillow the wad of batting won't move.

Sally, I try to round the corner or after stitching - I will stitch across the corner on an angle and cut away the excess fabric - seems to work for me. There are some really great tips here - hope to see some pillows soon in projects. *4U

Another idea would be to use piping on your edges. Piping helps the whole pillow retain it's shape and can add color and design detail.
You have the other basic sewing answers here already, clipping corners and sewing a couple of stitches diagonally across the corner. You can also use a wooden poker to poke the corners out. It looks like a chopstick or a knitting needle but not too sharp, you don't want to poke a hole!

What I learned is kind-of heard to explain but I will try. If your pillow is, for example, 14 inches square, measure in about 4" from the edge on all corners along the seamlines and make a mark on the seamline. Also mark the corner about 3/4" inside what would have been the seamline if it were done the normal way with a consistent seam allowance. The corner marks should be on the diagonal (as if you folded the pillow from corner to corner.) These are your new corners. If you look at it now, you will technically have a 12-sided figure - each side will have a line with 2 angles - slope up from the corner to the normal seam line sloping back down to the corner. This removes the extra bulk that flops around in the corner. The amount you go in from the corner itself and the amount to change the seamline angle vary with the size of the pillow. There is no hard and fast rule. Sometimes 1/2" will be removed, sometimes 1". And, it may not work as nicely on pillows with borders unless you reduce the amount removed. It depends on the width of the border since you are altering the angles of the seamlines. I sugest you baste two sides and one corner and look to see if it visually noticable. You will not notice it on a wide border whereas it will be very noticable with a narrow border. To turn the corner itself, do as several have recommended and take a stitch or several diagonal across the exact corner, once again, the amount depending on the bulk at the corner. In addition, after you turn the pillow right side out, put some extra batting in the corner if you are using a pillow form, and I also usually use a form larger that the finished pillow size or wrap the correct size form with batting. I have also fused batting into the corners (after sewn and trimmed, and before stuffed, front and back) to hold them in place if I could not alter the seamlines because of it being too noticable on a narrow border or striped fabric. I am finished with complicated answers to a simple question, but they do work!

I vaguely remember seeing someone cutting a square piece of batting and folding it into 4 and tucking into the corners of the cushion.Fills out the corners. Haven't tried it but it seemed to make sense to me. Hope this helps. Regards Lyn

Slightly round the corners when sewing about 3-5 stitches on each side of the ends--don't get them nice and square!

Try emblibrary's tutorials . I'm sure u will find one there on making pillows. *

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by lbrow 05 Jul 2009

Well I went to emblibrary to look for u & this is the first time I could not find anything on pillow making or squaring corners for u. the others have given u excellent advice though so guess u will do well. sorry *

After sewing the seams, cut a square out of the corner. If it's a 5/8 seam, make the square 5/8, for example. When you turn the pillow right side out, the edges will nicely fill in the corner spot, instead of having all the excess that makes a bump.
Jo

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by dlmds 05 Jul 2009

Thank you Jofrog, I will try this, I really dislike the look of those poke out corners. H&*.

Are you boxing the corners? or are they 90 degree flat no box? make sure you clip out any excess fabric from your corner seams too...

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by dlmds 05 Jul 2009

Yes Lv2sew, I do cut out the extra fabric out of the corners. They still seem to poke out and up after inserting the pillow form. H&*.

by shirlener88 05 Jul 2009

what does box mean?

Do not try to make your corners a perfect 90 degree angle. When you get to within a stitch length from the corner turn 45 degrees and take two stitches, turn another 45 degrees and continue stitching your next side. You can use your point turner to push out the corner. This will allow for a turn that will look perfect. Try it on a sample corner to see if it looks good to you. Some people take 3 stitches on the 45.

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by dlmds 05 Jul 2009

Dkatzmann, I will try both ways on some scrap fabric. This sounds sensible to me. H&*.

Hi Sally,
this is a german link list which guides you to free sewing project pages.
The category "Kissen" is for pillow, and most of the links are to english language sites.
Maybe you will find an inspiration here.
When you point with the mouse (not clicking) the small bubble icon, a small window shows a preview of the site. This speeds up the search.
CU
Eva

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by dlmds 05 Jul 2009

Thank you Eva, I will give this a try. H&*.

by iris2006 05 Jul 2009

Thanks Eva, many things on this site for inspiration, just click on all the words and you will find childrenbeds, teybears and many many more. I bookmarked this page for the future.

I'm anxious to see the answers to your question. Corners have always been a problem for me, as well. Thanks for asking this one!

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by dlmds 05 Jul 2009

Waterlily, It is so frustrating to make a beautiful pillow, then end-up with this ugly look. I recieved my new "Designs in Machine Embroidery" they have 10 pillow designs in there. I saw that the square ones had the ugly corners. So I guess we are not the only ones with this problem!! Haha!! H&*.