Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that a week or so ago I posted about redecorating my 6 year old's bedroom in an underwater theme. I will be blogging the rest of the room painting when it's finished (might be a little way off yet!) but this week I've been making fish shaped cushions to go on her bed in keeping with the underwater theme.
First I found a selection of different coloured plain material and cut out some fairly chunky fish shapes, two in each colour.
The next thing to do was to sew a button on each where a fish eye would be, then put the two sides together (the side with the 'eye' on inwards) and sew around the edges, except across the end of the tail.
Then I went out to the garage to find an old sofa cushion. I have bought a few sofas on ebay over the last few years, it's helpful that I have a very nice father (but don't tell him I said that!) with a trailer, but it's not hard to pick up an old sofa for less than £10 and the amount of wood and stuffing you can get out of them is incredible.
So next step was to take the padding out of the sofa cushion. Different cushions are stuffed with different things, but this particular one had two layers of sponge as their padding.
And then cut it into a fish shape (I could get two fish out of one layer of sponge) I also rounded the edges.
I turned the fish shaped material the right way out again and put the padding inside it. The padding was reluctant to go through the narrowest part of the tail, so I had to roll up the padding tightly to get it through, and then flatten it out again afterwards.
Next thing was to sew up the tail with hand stitching, folding in the edges to make sure they didn't fray.
Ta da! Finished fish cushion!
Once they were all finished they were ready to go on her bed (or mattress on the floor as it currently is while the room is being done)
First I found a selection of different coloured plain material and cut out some fairly chunky fish shapes, two in each colour.
The next thing to do was to sew a button on each where a fish eye would be, then put the two sides together (the side with the 'eye' on inwards) and sew around the edges, except across the end of the tail.
Then I went out to the garage to find an old sofa cushion. I have bought a few sofas on ebay over the last few years, it's helpful that I have a very nice father (but don't tell him I said that!) with a trailer, but it's not hard to pick up an old sofa for less than £10 and the amount of wood and stuffing you can get out of them is incredible.
So next step was to take the padding out of the sofa cushion. Different cushions are stuffed with different things, but this particular one had two layers of sponge as their padding.
And then cut it into a fish shape (I could get two fish out of one layer of sponge) I also rounded the edges.
I turned the fish shaped material the right way out again and put the padding inside it. The padding was reluctant to go through the narrowest part of the tail, so I had to roll up the padding tightly to get it through, and then flatten it out again afterwards.
Next thing was to sew up the tail with hand stitching, folding in the edges to make sure they didn't fray.
Ta da! Finished fish cushion!
Once they were all finished they were ready to go on her bed (or mattress on the floor as it currently is while the room is being done)
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