Saturday 8 August 2015

Making floor cushions

How hard can it be to make a floor cushion? 

Well the answer is not that hard at all. 

It took me around an hour to mark and cut the 16 pieces.

15 minutes and a lot of swearing to thread the over locker. 

About 20 mins to sew the pieces together.

A lot more swearing to sew the centre piece.

20 minutes to add the base piece.

10 minutes to stuff and 15 mins to hand sew the opening up. I used stuffing but if you're short of space you could use it to store a winter/summer duvet. 

I up cycled a pair of curtains and an old table cloth for the project, unfortunately I cut the material the wrong way (there's a fancy way of saying this, Dias???) and as soon as I sat on it the seams started to rip and after much more swearing and hand sewing. I gave up and will try again tomorrow with a different cut.


And I'll reuse this material to make some patch work smaller cushions after re cutting it the other way. 

4 comments:

  1. Ten out of ten for effort... for the record I'm pretty rubbish at sewing and I still have a patchwork cushion on the go from when I was pregnant with my daughters 21 years ago! Here's hoping your second attempt is more successful x

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  2. i was rather pleased with it for my first effort and after rising it a few times i just gave up as you can see it started losing shape from sewing and fraying and sewing. the only trouble is the other material i have requires re threading the over locker......grrrrrrr

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  3. that is pretty impressive.

    Sewing is not my forte but something I would love to learn

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    1. its been taken apart and a new one with better one material

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