Remember this bench:
How about this fabric:
Well if you don't remember, I have been trying to make a cushion cover for my bench. I seriously had no idea I would dread this project so much. This was definitely quite a challenge. In the end I have a perfectly imperfect cushion cover! Seriously I love it. It fits the cushion I had cut just right.
Here is the result:
I'm not doing a tutorial on this because it took FOREVER! Really though if you're interested in how I made it, I would tell you my steps (more thoroughly than the steps below).
It went a bit like this:
- Cut fabric
- hem
- make piping
- sew it on
- hem some more
- cut some more fabric
- sew on a zipper
- hem again
- sew pieces together
- sew corners together
- spend about ten minutes trying to fit a large foam piece in an eighteen inch zipper hole (yeah bad idea on that size)
- sit back and relish in the fact that the dreaded cover is FINALLY finished.
- tell myself I will never take a sewing job on that I don't enjoy again
Happy sewing
Michelle
3 comments:
wow- it looks great!! I have to laugh because most of my sewing jobs go like this- part of why I don't do it more- but the money you can save doing it yourself,right? I love the pillows on each end for that pop of color too- you did a fantastic job :)
I like toille on anything. Great job. I love reading your blog and stealing your ideas!
You did a super job on it! Now, sit back.
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