As a pretty standard response would be when asked 'What are you up to this weekend' the answer has been sewing, and lots of it. And of course some drinking cider. My current project, apart from preparing little bits for the Roxeth School Fete, on the 23rd June, is making cushions. And a lot of cushions.
One of the Art directors who I work with had a massive box of African style batik fabrics, and a lot of cushions and mattresses and so thought that covering them all would look fantastic, but just didn't have the time. So I was entrusted with the box of beautiful fabrics, and asked to make a lot of cushion covers. 36 in total, to be exact. 27 cushion covers and 9 mattress covers.
Now I'm quite a pro at making cushion covers, not that there's really much to it, and so it doesn't actually take me too long to make one, if I concentrate. Maybe half an hour for a standard size cushion cover, and an hour for the mattress covers.
But the problem is concentration. I am so easily distracted. If there's no one at home, I can probably concentrate and sew properly for a good few hours, and be very productive, An example of this was yesterday morning when my house mates were all asleep and so I made 8 cushion covers in a row without stopping, even to go on the internet.
However, when they're in, I struggle a lot more as I constantly want to wander in to the living room to see what they're up to. Or I even get sidetracked with other sewing projects. In the midst of cushion making I have half made a very pretty dress, and felted a fair few new strawberries for various projects.
I'm just waiting on some Velcro to arrive to sew down the lengths of the mattress covers, to get them on and off, but apart from that, after this weekend, I should have pretty much finished them. That is if I get off my computer to stop blogging and get back to sewing.
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