Week 6 Update: Cushion Victory!

Home sewing is like doing a 5,000–piece 3D puzzle. Pieces that you swear should go together usually don't. And you'd better not lose the picture that shows you what the finished puzzle looks like; otherwise, you're never getting that model of the Taj Mahal built.

This is the back of the upper cushion!

I didn't dare take this construction apart so I traced the pieces with chalk.

Last week I wanted to sew the cushion for my Week 4 upholstery project. I've never liked sewing welting, and my mind was not changed. The book More Sewing for the Home did lead me through cutting out a new cushion pattern, sewing on the welting, and sewing all the pieces together. I couldn't have done it without the pictures leading me by the hand.

I spent as many hours putting this sucker together as it probably would have taken me to put together a 3D puzzle when all the pieces are the same color. I sewed into my finger once, repinned everything at least three times, refilled the bobbin too many times to count, and yelled at my sewing machine... a lot.

But I have a cushion that fits and is straight. Don't look at it too closely. Who does that anyway?

Thanks,

Aimee