'Green' with Envy...Jumper Cushion Cover...

I have started to bring my collection together, I have finalised my designs and have been creating my leaf shapes out of recycled odds and ends ready to applique on to my screen printed designs.

Materials that have been used include old washed and pressed dish cloths, an old jumper, old curtain fabric, an old fleece, buttons that have been collected over the years from old garments, a leather sofa swatch and old remnants that were found in my sewing basket :-

Leaf made from an old place mat
and old curtain fabric with
added machine embroidered.

                                              

                                                            Machine embroidery on a leather

                                                              sofa swatch. This will be for the mobile

                                                          hanging.

Bead work to look like 'dew' droplets
were then added to the place mat
and curtain fabric leaf designs.

Machine embroidery was applied to

some old washed and pressed dish cloths.

Machine embroidered and hand beaded dish cloth.

The dish cloth leaf pattern was then applied to a handmade cushion.  The cushion was made from an old jumper - I found an article 'Sewing World' November 2011 on how to make a 'cashmere sweater cushion' and I decided that I would adapt this and make a cushion cover from one of my old jumpers in a similar way and then incorporate one of my designs...(a photo of my old jumper can be seen in my previous blog post 'Recycling').



I started off by cutting my jumper in half width ways to try and work out the pattern for my cushion cover.  Once I had worked out which part of the jumper I would need to go where for the cushion cover I cut it into sections and started to pin it in the correct position :-

The ribbed section of the jumper will create a flap
that will be buttoned on the back of the cushion cover.

I then developed my cushion cover but adding old buttons to the flap on the back of the cover and for the front I cut out the pattern from an old fleece.  I then stitched the dish cloth leafs on to the tip of the fleece pattern with an old button to hold it all in place.  I decided to make a feature of all of the button, font and back, by stitching them on with a contrasting thread.

Buttons on back of cushion cover
with contrasting threads.

Pattern on front of cushion cover.
Stitched in place by the buttons and leafs.

 The finished cushion cover, I feel, is very effective and I am pleased with how it has turned out.

Front of cushion.

Back of cushion.

Bibiliogrpahy:-

All Images are my own.
Sewing World Magazine. November 2011.