Ive been getting kind of busy sewing a few cushions lately.
I made this one for my eldest daughters 19th birthday.
Now I can't take all of the credit for this burst of creativity as I did gain my inspiration from another blogger
Bec has a full tutorial on how she made her fabulous cushion, so if your looking for tips pop on over!!
But here's a few snaps of mine in progress.
But here's a few snaps of mine in progress.
I traced the skull outline onto the paper of some fusible interfacing & then ironed it onto my doily
Cut out the shape
I used Panne velvet for my cushion as I couldn't find any regular velvet, it was a bit painful to work with I thought.... but gave a good end result.
I ironed it onto my fabric & then used black embroidery cotton to stitch around all of the raw edges of the doily
I then stitched the two squares of fabric together with my sewing machine, leaving an opening at the bottom to pop the cushion insert in, I then hand stitched it closed. My original plan was to insert a hidden zipper, but my over locker isn't currently working so I was unable to put a decent edge on the fabric. This made it impossible to get the zipper in neatly. Like I said before, this fabric was a pain to work with, it slips, slides, stretches & frays very easily.
TA DA!!!
What do you think of my skull cushion?
Dream child No1 loved it!!!
CHEERS
Trish xxx
5 comments:
O.M.G! I soooo WANT it NOW!!!! So funny, I did a 'creative' post too. Yours is much better!!!! I'll have to have a 'go' at this now too....wish me luck!
x KL
It looks amazing! Good idea about using interfacing too, I wished we had done that (I really wished we'd done that about 2 hours into the hand stitching!).
Becs
www.bornagain-creations.com
That's awesome. Time consuming stitching the skull on but I know she would have loved it. And being a clever sewer herself she would have appreciated the effort.
Hi Trish, they look great, clever use of the doily.x
wow, what a great idea to use the doily! did ur daughter love it to bits!!!? i bet she did! you are a clever lady! very awesome!!!!
laura x
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