Cushions

Having finally got the lounge sorted in terms of furniture, decorating and curtains (tedious post to follow later on those!) my other half decided that we needed cushions to match. Having seen the cost of them on the high street and wanting to some to match I stupidly volunteered to make them.  The first was a straight forward stripey one that was in exactly the same fabric as the curtains and was done quickly mainly to keep my other half happy that I was actually going to do them.

The next was more ambitious and I decided to do the applique striped flower motif, being new to applique I found myself using the wrong type of bonding web and had a frustrating time with the sewing machine needle getting gummed up and the thread breaking.  To make matters worse I then tried piping round the edges - I still haven't worked out how to neatly turn the corners with the piping and they ended up a disaster. I then cheated and covered over the corners so that they wouldn't show.

The flower cushion took rather a long time to make and other half was getting more and more annoyed with the lack of progress so I went back to simpler designs for the next two to get them done.

I still have a couple more to do but this is not going to be for a little while, too many other UFO's to be finishing off.