A 20-inch ivory Cotton Couture pillow sham on a sunlit bed, ready for a satin-stitched monogram.
The monogram sham styled on a newlyweds' bed.
A close view of a satin-stitched appliqué monogram in cornflower thread.
The appliqué edge finish shown up close on an apricot pillow.

Quick Ship & Custom

20″ Monogram Pillow Sham

$145

A generous 20-inch sham in ivory Cotton Couture cotton, finished with a hand-cut appliqué monogram and a satin-stitched edge. Traditional three-letter monogram, or block style if you’d rather.

  • Quick Ship: ivory blank, ships in 3–5 days
  • Custom: your fabric + welting, made in 2–3 weeks
  • You approve a stitched-layout proof before I sew

Design your gift

Build it, and see it before you buy.

Type a name, pick a thread, and watch it land on the pillow — and on a gift tag you can screenshot and send.

The 20-inch ivory sham with your live monogram preview composited onto it.

Your design, previewed on the 20″ sham.

To ――――

your initials

This is the gift tag — screenshot it and send it to yourself.

You’ll approve a stitched-layout proof before I sew.

How it’s made

Quick Ship — personalized on an ivory Cotton Couture blank, ships in 3–5 days.

Monogram or name
Lettering style
Your initials

Jane Ellen Smithj S e — the last-name initial sits center, enlarged.

Thread

This is for the tag, not the stitching — it won’t be sewn onto the pillow.

20″ Monogram Pillow Sham $145

Personalized items are final sale — which is exactly why you approve a proof first.

The details

What it’s made of.

How appliqué works

Appliqué is my signature, and it’s more involved than plain embroidery. I machine-stitch a fabric shape down to the sham, hand-cut it free with small scissors, then run a satin stitch around every edge so nothing frays. The result has real dimension — a raised, ribbon-smooth letter you can feel.

I digitize many of my own letterforms in Embrilliance and StitchArtist, so the monogram sits right for your initials rather than a stock template.

Fabric & thread

The sham is Michael Miller Cotton Couture — a dense, smooth quilting-weight cotton solid. Quick Ship pieces are stitched on ivory; Custom pieces can be any of the 230 Cotton Couture colors, with welting to match or contrast.

I match thread to fabric by eye, working from Madeira, Isacord, Sulky, and Exquisite lines to get the exact tone right.

Size & fill

Finished sham measures about 20 × 20 inches with an envelope back. Insert availability is a placeholder — confirm with Edelweiss.

Care

Care instructions are a placeholder pending confirmation. As a general guide for appliqué cotton, gentle cold wash and low heat protect the stitching — but please confirm before relying on this.

Before I sew

Nothing is stitched until you’ve seen it.

Personalized pieces are final sale, so I make certain first. You’ll get a stitched-layout proof of your exact monogram, thread, and placement — and your yes is the only go-ahead I work from.