Cushion Covers Continued

Meet the team . . .

• J & A, designers:

. . . they went for variety.

• C, yours truly, on ruler and scissor duty:

. . . my challenge was to convert ideas into fabric ready to sew. I had to add the 1.5 seam allowance to each side of each piece. That's in italics because a couple of times I mixed it up. An extra strip of fabric solved the problem and ended up looking like a feature.

• D on the sewing machine:

. . . it's her machine, and I was in no mood for sewing zippers that day.

• A, also starred on the stitch ripper
• and J took over the camera. thanks for the pics J:)
  

The Cushion Cover Cooperative

Here are the fabrics I had left over from the doona cover project:
We decided it would be great to add scatter cushions in matching fabrics to enhance the look. There were four of us involved in the project--it turned out to be a fun morning of work, plus a bit of finishing off the next day.

First step was to measure and design:
A tip for making cushion covers: make the cover a bit smaller than the cushion insert. It sounds contradictory, I know, but that way the cushion will look nice and plump. Otherwise it always looks a little bit hungry.

Our cushion inserts actually came with covers--for some strange reason it was cheaper to buy them that way than to buy just the inserts. Since we had a team on the job, one person was delegated to rescue the zips from the covers that weren't needed, while the rest of us got started making up the new covers.

The cushion covers we took off were 41 cm square, so we went with 40 cm square for a nice easy figure to work with.

A tip for working with zips: never, never, let the slider come off the end of the strips of little teeth. Getting it back on is not fun!