Yes I can sew!

I went off with my Mum today to the Bourke Tafe. We had all our sewing gear and sewed all day, it is every week and Mum has been going for a few years now, so well now we have moved back I can go too!!

This is the end result of a fun day spent with the Ladies of the Bourke Sewing Group. The chair, a $2 Tip Shop purchase, had a yucky vinyl covered cushion, sooo I got a heap of the scrap fabrics left over from the desk project and layed them out in a sort of 4 block square. I then iron them all and kept them it their block arrangement, trimed the edges up so the pieces are squared off, then sew them together.

Once I had all the pieces together in a sort of square I used the cushion as a template and drew around it about an inch out from the edge. I used some iron on pellon and calico on the top, sandwiching them together and machine quilting to hold it in place. For the bottom I used 2 pieces of calico and sewed them together flat, the bottom needed 2 button holes in it, quickly fixed on Mums machine, these are for the holding straps on the original cushion. I then placed rickrack around the upside of the top and sewed it into place, then on went the outside of the bottom, and they were both sewn together leaving enough room to squeeze the old cushion in to the new cover and to turn it in the right way. Ok gloat time, when I turned it in the right way I was CHUFFED! So I stuffed the old yucky cushion into its new home and sewed it up, very pleased with the result, sooo the scraps of the scraps of the scraps from the desk are going to be in the next blogg as a pin cushion and that just about finished the "scraps" off!

Well tomorrow I am off to raid one of the Ladies from today's, garden for cuttings and bulbs X:oD

PS If anyone need some tips I am happy to help.......I will ask Sash, my big Sis or Mum they are really good at this stuff and I love that they have given me this hobbie as a gift XXOO girls I love you both heaps X:'oD