Cushions!

もう１０年ぐらい使っているソファーのクッションに、新しいカバーを作りました。
元のクッションはワインレッドとマスタード色だったのを、青、黄色、ピンクの３色クッションにしてみました。

We had this cushion (2 burgundy and 1 mustard color) for about 10 years now and I decided to make a new cover. The new ones are tri-color!

The original cushion dissected.

I reused the piping for the new one.

New cushion cover fabric. It's like a velvety fabric and the circles are sewn with an elastic thread in the bobbin creating this bubbly texture. The thing is, the tightness of the circles are not quite the same so the fabric was slightly torqued. I steamed it a bit in an attempt to square it out but it just got shrunk more.

New piping.

When I cut the fabric by counting the "bubble" and sewed the 2 pieces together matching the bubbles, because of the torque in the fabric, the cushion ended up all wonky. So I had to unpick everything and re-cut the fabric and sewed them together without matching the bubble.

I added a concealed zip so that (1) I don't have to hand-stitch it, and (2) so that the cover can be taken off easily for a quick wash.

The combination of the textured fabric, piping, and the concealed zip made a simple project very complicated. It took me 3 weeks to finish 3 cushion covers.