{"id":142,"date":"2011-08-30T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitchover.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-03-31T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T19:06:29","slug":"142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stitchover.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"New Sewing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Turns out my mum was hiding an old sewing machine in her garage. As she was threatening to put it in the attic I have claimed it and am now very excited about sewing things. In fact, I have convinced myself that I am a sewing genius and that I can now make everything! About 6 months ago I bought material for new cushion covers and had managed to hand sew 1. Within 2 hours of setting up the sewing machine I managed to finish the remaining 3 cushion covers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Making the cushion covers was really easy. The back piece is just a big square the same size as the intended cushion (I laid the original cushion cover on top of the fabric and cut around). The front piece acts a bit like a pillow case so it’s a square with about 1\/4 extra in length. I laid the two pieces together, right side facing with the extra quarter folded over and used the sewing machine to sew around the other three edges.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>In this case it didn’t really matter that I can’t sew in a straight line as everything looked great when I turned the cover in the right way and put it on the cushion.<\/p>\n

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The only trouble was that it didn’t take very long to make and I wanted to keep using my new toy. I had a lot of leftover cushion cover material and while I was searching for something to make with it I found this amazing website<\/a> which has all sorts of sewing and knitting patterns. I used the extra cushion fabric and a kindly donated shirt to make my leftover bag.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I used the Purl Bee’s pattern<\/a> but I don’t have a bias tape maker (I don’t even know what a bias tape maker is) so I just ironed my bag handles into the shape in the picture and everything seems to have turned out ok \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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