Kids Creating Cushions

I was at Chertsey Museum today, running two children's sessions where they were creating their own cushion.  I made the basic cushion cover, and bought the inserts from Ikea.  I provided fabric pens, buttons, lace, denim pockets, ribbon fleece scraps, scrap booking and sticky felt letters, bling, and several glue guns, and let them do what they liked (the only rule was that an adult had to do the glue gun, luckily 4 mums statyed at each session)

Once they had fully decorated their cushion, we stuffed the insert in and they got to use the old hand crank Singer sewing machine to stitch up the opening

I've picked out a few to show you here, but all the ones I managed to photograph are on the Fun With Fabric blog 

 

   

The museum has also asked me to do another adult class -  make a patchwork quilt in a weekend!  This is really exciting - we are going to do it as a real beginner's course, with 8" squares onto an Ikea fleece, and it will probably happen in October :-)

I am, of course, in the meantime available for birthday parties, baby showers, hen nights and Bar Mitzvahs!!!