To Craft!

So it's my Mum's Birthday this week. YAY!!

In April when I went to the AQC with her I bought a panel that was a cute applique of Poppies on a bag.  The kit only contained the materials for the panel, but came with the pattern for the bag too.  I had every intention of making the bag in time for Mum's Birthday, but as usual I had completely forgotten about it until it was too late to purchase the materials I wanted to use.  So I ended up making the panel up and deciding to make it into a cushion cover instead.

So this is the panel all put together. I used DMC embroidery cotton for the detail on the poppies and the blanket stitching around the shapes.  The stems on the poppies were sewn using a green variegated thread and the smallest stitch on my sewing machine.

On the weekend just gone I tea dyed 5 metres of calico. So I decided to use the dyed calico to make up the front and back of the cushion.  I had also decided to pad the front panel with some iron pelon, so lined the inside with regular coloured calico. I only ditch stitched around the black part of the internal panel then again around the red edge next to the calico.  I also had a strip of red left over from the inner panel, so I decided to try and use it for piping along the outside of the cushion.  Which worked I might add! Although it's not perfect I'm so proud of myself!! :D  The back of the cushion is also the tea dyed calico & lined with regular calico, it also has a fold over opening so you can slip in a cushion insert .

This Birthday present is now winging it's way to my sister's house in Brisbane for my Mum to open on her Birthday!