Money for nothing
and the chicks for free is the line from Dire Straits.
Totally unPC these days but with Brexit and interest rates in the UK finally making a difference to our exchange rates, it makes sense to invest some free time into something productive.
Eh, what are you on about?
Many moons ago, we asked our son if he’d outgrown his Buzz Lightyear curtains and got an affirmative grunt.
A trip to John Lewis and we found some curtains he liked that were the right width for his dormer windows. Great, only thing was the length. Our dormers are short, 91cm wide but only 127cm tall.
It took me 5 years, but a couple of months ago, with the help of youTube, I trimed off 43cm from the top of each curtain and reattached the curtain header and low, half a days effort we all had made to measured curtains.
And a load of fabric.
You binned it right, or recycled it?
Today, I used 90 minutes of my time (don’t ask, I don’t do this very often) and finished this task.
Step 1:
Buy cushions from Hobbycraft, Ipswich – I chose a 43cm square one as that made the most of my spare fabric.
Step 2:
prep fabric – I took out the black out lining still attached to the off cuts.
Set up your iron ready to iron in the hems for the cushions.
Step 3:
measure out the fabric as specified on Home stories a to z envelope cushion cover. 43cm is 17″, so I measured out 40″ by 17″.
Cut it to length.
Step 4:
iron in the hems for the short edges.
Step 5:
sew in the hems and fit the fabric to the cushion and pin where the overlap is.
Step 6:
do the long edges as per Home stories a to z envelope cushion cover.
Step 7:
take your photo 🙂 and place in room for a very coordinated look.
A big thank you to Home stories a to z envelope cushion cover and N Kinsey. This would have taken me forever to figure out without your help!
I think I still have enough fabric to recover the lampshade…
For those in the UK and Europe
If, like me, you live in the UK or Europe, we do not measure in inches and so our cushion pads are not sold in inches.
This means Beth’s measurements are not directly transferable.
This is her method in metric:
| Size of square cushion | Size of fabric required |
|---|---|
| 32x32cm | 32x79cm |
| 40x40cm | 40x95cm |
| 42x42cm | 42x99cm |
| 43x43cm | 43x101cm |
| 45x45cm | 45x105cm |
| 52x52cm | 52x119cm |
| 57x57cm | 57x129cm |
| 67x67cm | 67x149cm |
| 72x72cm | 72x159cm |
The very sharp eyed will see that basically it’s the width of the cushion by twice the width and 15cm (width by (2width+15)).
Or you could try my cushion tool.
Posted: April 4th, 2019 under 42.