Project one is finished
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How to make cushion covers...
Take one cool fat quarter recently found at Craft show...
Add 1m of brown fabric, purchased yesterday at Spotlight...
Add 6 cover-yourself buttons...
A pinch of cotton thread...
Take two much loved cushion covers ready for retirement...
Create pattern in your head and use old cushion covers as a guide for size...
Cut out brown fabric, realise you should wash it in case it runs...
Once washed, dry and iron...
Cut fat quarter into thirds and hem the longest edges...
Iron fusible to the back of fat quarter fabric and position on largest squares of brown fabric... iron on...
Sew over hems to attach permanently to cover front... get tricky and sew up one side of each of the trees on the fabric and along the occasional branch so that it looks cool...
Hem brown fabric for backs and create a wide hem on one half of overlapping fabric...
Lay pieces together and double stitch the whole way around the outside, then trim off corners...
Turn the right way, insert cushion, admire handiwork....
Repeat for hubbies cushion cover...
Cover buttons with left over fat quarter fabric...
Sew onto wide hem, where it overlaps...
Pat self on back for having finally replaced cushion covers...Sit on couch, using new cushions, and take up Project two from the coffee table...
