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This week I have continued to work on the 5 cushions which I
have been commissioned to do. The work has been intense but pleasurable because
I am surrounded with colour. I constructed the fronts and then put them on
wadding and a backing fabric for quilting. I did 5 different designs with a variegated
thread.
I also inserted a zipper opening at the back. Here’s the
method I use.
1 Cut a square of fabric 2” larger than the finished cushion
front and cut it in half across the middle. Draw a line 1” from the cut edge on
the WS of one of the pieces and then turn under 1/8” seam along the cut edges
of both pieces so that they don’t fray.
2 Place and pin the pieces RS together. Use a couple of pins
to mark the length of the zip on this line so you know where it is going to
start and stop. With a matching thread, start to sew along the marked line with
a normal stitch to the first pin, and then increase the length of the stitch to
a tacking stitch to the next pin. Finally go back to a normal stitch to finish
the line.
3 Press the seam open on the WS and pin the zip in place
centrally along the sewn seam.
4 Sew tacking stitches as close as possible to the zip to
hold it in place and then remove the pins.
5 Put a zipper foot on your machine and adjust the needle position.
Sew on the RS of the fabric, outside of the line of tacking stitches.
One down, four to go!
And what made me feel old this week? My granddaughter howled
with laughter when she saw my teapot with a woolly hat on and wanted to know
why it was wearing one! She had never seen a tea cosy before!!
