 | Notions - Thick upholstery fabric (you use what ever fabric that would best suit you)
- Purchased book from Borders the maker is "Paperchase"
- 2 sheets of medium cut-a-way
- 2 layers of thin batting
The photograph shows the fabric and the two layers of cut-a-way I used to stitch Scented Orchid_01 |
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 | This photograph is the book I purchased from Borders.
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 | 2 layers of thin wadding
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 | Mark the thin wadding the same size as the cover of the book
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 | Cut the wadding
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 | Glue the wadding onto the cover of the book
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 | I put one piece of thin wadding over Scented Orchid_01 and traced on the wadding the outline of the design
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 | Roughly cut around the outline of the wadding and glue the wadding onto the centre of the two layers of wadding you just glued to cover of the book
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 | Cut the cut-a-way as close as you can to the design
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 | Mark the centre of Scented Orchid_01
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 | Centre of Scented Orchid_01
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 | - Working from your centre you just marked using a square ruler to mark a border on the wrong side
- Stitch on the wrong side in straight stitch around the border you just marked with your pen
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 | Stitch on the right side a zigzag stitch Over the top of the zigzag stitch you just stitched, stitch a satin stitch Over the top of the satin stitch you just stitched, stitch another satin stitch but making this satin stitch slight wider, this gives your border a lovely finish |
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 | Close up of the satin stitch for the border
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 | Cut away the excess fabric from the satin stitch
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 | - Once you cut away the excess fabric from the satin stitch border you then satin stitch over the satin stitch you did previously, from memory I did that twice, it does give the border a lovely finish
- Then I stitched right up against the satin stitch a straight triple stitch, this does finish the project off beautifully
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 | Glue Scented Orchid_01 panel onto the layers of thin wadding
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 | The Scented Orchid panel already to lay the books over the top
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 | Once I glued the panel onto the wadding, I then layed a number of heavy books on the top of the panel and left the books on top for over twenty four hours
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| Instructions for making the Scented Orchid cushion |
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 | Stitch out Scented Orchid_02 As you can see I changed the thread colour's from the original design colour chart.
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 | - Stitch out the Orchid_01 to Orchid_06. I stitched out 18 squares to make a border to go around Scented Orchid_02
- Zigzag stitch each square onto your background fabric
- Once you have all the squares in place you then satin stitch each of the square so as to give each of the squares a nice finish
- Then I zigzag stitched Scented Orchid_02 in the centre of the squares
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 | Stitch a nice hem at the top of cushion
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 | Back of what I had just finished. I find sometimes looking at the messy back shows you what had been done on the face of the cushion
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 | Close up of cushion
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 | I made a flap to go over the front of the cushion and put Oriental buttons to give the cushion a lovely finish
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 | Another view of the cushion |
