Project cushions

After Luna had an accident on some of the scatter cushions on our bed, I had to take off the covers to be able to wash them only to discover that the inside covers have all but disintegrated. 😲

 

After digging in my stash, I decided on a fabric and started stitching new covers.  It was the first time I used the Janome My Lock 644D I inherited from my mother.  What an absolute lovely machine. 

What a difference a new piece of fabric makes

and in no time at all three were looking brand new. 

 

I will however have to make new covers for all, so this project will be ongoing for some time.  

I then made a bed for Britney, our Chow/Boerboel mix, by stitching four pillowcases together, stuffing the pillows inside and stitching the openings closed.

I then used an old duvet cover to stitch a cover and just like that this project was done as well.

I then continued making more dog beds for our local SPCA using old pillows.  Before I could finish covering them also with the old duvet, our little Yorkshire Terrier, Luna, decided it looks too inviting and caught a nap.😀

Panda Bear Cushions

My mother asked me to make 2 more of these panda bear cushions I wrote about in this post.

 



Since then our house burned and it was sadly put on the back burner.  But with her upcoming birthday, I decided there is no better time to get this over and done with.

 

It felt really good to gave them to her this afternoon on her 78th birthday.

 

Wedding cushions

I've been working on these cushions as well the last month.  This was however a team effort as I asked one of my quilting buddies, Magda du Plesssis, to help me with the stitching of the cushions and she did a terrific job.  They look stunning!

Crown catering ordered these sets in white only as they are in high demand with their clients.

The complete set  - 2 kneeling cushions with the ring cushion.



Close up of the ring cushion.

The kneeling cushion.

The second set of cushions with a slight variation.  More embroidery and less ribbon.





A ring cushion embellished with silver ribbon and embroidery.

Candlewick Embroidery

I've found these embroidered Candlewick pieces between my mother-in-law's stuff when she died in 2007 and finally finished them.

The cream and peach one's was converted to pillowcases. 

I framed the blue and pink pieces and add ribbon and lace to finish them off.

Another unfinished project finished.

Kneeling and ring cushions for weddings

A client of mine phoned me on Wednesday 19 December asking me if would be possible to make 2 sets of kneeling cushions with the accompanying ring bearers cushions for weddings today, Saturday the 22nd. 

With such short notice, I immediately started working.  Thursday she phoned again asking if I could deliver one set the same afternoon!  As I was still far from finished (I had to drive around the shops buying the necessary supplies also), we decided that I would deliver one set on Friday morning and the other set Saturday morning. 

With my overlocker out of order, I had to do everything the old fashioned way which was a lot more work and very time consuming.  The frills needed for all 6 cushions was approximately 20m in length...

This set was finished Friday morning at 03h00 and delivered on time.  I asked my husband to photograph the set with some close ups, but he was in such a hurry that most of the photo's are blurred.  He also did not notice that he set the Ipad on video, so these photo's is about all there is.

Kneeling cushion x2

 

The embroidery was done in white with silver lace and ribbon.



Ring bearers cushion

After getting a few hours sleep, I started with the next set finishing them 24h00 Friday night. 

 

 

This set was done in white and gold.

 

 

 

 





Assimina from Crown Catering was absolutely thrilled!  I can only hope that the people hiring these sets, will appreciate it and take good care of them.  I am extremely pleased with the end result and think they are gorgeous.  I was however extremely tired.  At this rate I will need a holiday once this one is finished...

Weddings - 2

Ringbearers cushion I made a few years back when I still thought it worthwile to sell embroidered items at flea markets.  The white satin with silver metallic thread turned out beautiful.  I made cream sets embroidered with gold as well.

Panda Bear Cushion

I finally finished the cushion I wrote about in this post.

Embroidery Library

Panda Bear Cushion

I made a beautiful embroidered cushion featuring a panda bear scene depicted inside the paw print of a panda bear a few years back as a gift for my mother.  She recently asked me to embroider another one for her and as the weather forecast for today was extremely cold weather, I decided to rather stay home than quilt with the girls.

The design is from Embroidery Library and although it uses only 15 colours, there is a staggering total of 70 thread changes.  Luckily my Brother Innovis 4000 embroidery machine, threads automatically, so I can literally just sits back and watch it do the job for me.  The design is 118 x 203mm and 59 241 stitches.  Although the Innovis calculated the stitching time at 127 minutes at it's top speed of 1 000 stitches per minute, it took me 4 and a half hours to complete.

After 1 hour of stitching and 24 thread changes later, the design looked like this:

2 hours and 39 thread changes later:

3 hours and 49 thread changes later:



After 4 hours, there was still 6 thread changes left.  The completed design looks like this:

Well worth the effort.  Now I still have to convert it into a cushion, though.