Day 152 - stage 2 sofa upgrade

Stage two had been a very long process. First I had to take our the seams of the first cover to make it a teensy bit bigger then if course I needed to make matching covets for the other two sofa's and finally I could get on with cushions which is no where near finished. It's taking a while because I am recycling the feather stuffing from the old cushions. Which as you can imagine is dusty and feathery work. I decided to go for random shapes and sizes for the cushions so it would be simple enough to repeat. Gonna need alot more.

Day 16 - Making a new cushion

The chair I reupholstered yesterday was missing a back cushion, surprisingly the slip took such little time I actually made this yesterday too. I used an old lumpy cushion from the sofa downstairs (which is similarly gross and is begging for the same treatment.) which I stuffed into an old pillow case and stitched shut to stop all the feathers escaping and try and give it some new shape. This done I then lay out pieces for my outer slip, (this one is removable for washing again.) I used a whole piece for the back and made the front up out of three rectangles (mostly because my leftover fabric was just a little bit too small.) I wanted to incorporate this patch, which had once lived proudly on one of The Man's t-shirts but had accidentally ended up in my scrap fabric bag, and, well...used for scrap. As you can imagine, this upset him a bit so I've kept hold of it for about two years with the intention of doing something with it! Well, today is the day. As the surface of the patch is printed it's a bit tacky and my machine was having difficulty feeding it through, so I made a small fabric frame to sandwich it, and actually the result is better than I could have hoped for. 

There are no zips or buttons on this pillow, the back has a longer section which tucks in and keeps the cushion in nice and firmly. 

There it is then, about 3 hours work, no ironing, no zips or buttons, no great skill just a bit of determination. (It's so much easier making clothes for something that doesn't breath, move or have annoying protruding parts!)