linen cushion tutorial

With all my stock of monogrammed sheets, I inevitably have some worn out treasures, that can no longer decently be draped across beds.  While sorting them today I decided to use two of the monograms to make  cushion covers for the guest cottage.

 I used

2 large monograms and remnants of the sheets, 

one heavy metis dischloth.  

a little ribbon

60 minutes of my time (OK it took a bit longer but I'm trying hard to make this sound easy!!)

I made this project as easy as possible.    Rather than fiddling around with buttons to close the cushion, I used sections from the hems of the sheets where I already had a perfect and wide hem, and overlapped these to form an envelope closing.

The first inset monogram is placed behind the linen cover piece.  Here I cut an X opening and opened up a rectangle to the exact size required.

I then basted the monogram in place before hemming it in with small tight stitches.

The second cushion was even simpler - I machine zig-zagged the monogram onto the centre of the cushion linen. 

Then to cover the machine stitches I simply stitched 4 lengths of narrow white ribbon and tied a little knot at each corner.  For those who don't like to sew, all this could have been done with fabric glue.

Once firmly in place I could sew my envelope backing pieces on.  Right side to right side, making sure they overlap enough.

Et voila!

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