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Join us for a fun and rewarding experience crafting your own custom made cushions. Designing and sewing your own home decor pieces is a wonderful way to add a personal touch to your living space. On this course you will create 2 cushions in 3 weeks exploring appliqué, piping, zipped and button fastenings.You will learn:
To add a zip to a cushion and construct a lapped closing
How to appliqué a design onto fabric
How to create a piped edge
To create buttonholes and sew on buttons
What you'll need to bring
1.5 meters of fabric. This can be the same or half a meter of 3 different fabrics. If you are choosing one fabric, please bring along enough fabric for an appliquéd design in a contracting colour
2m cord piping
2m complimentary cotton bias binding
16" plastic zip
Matching thread. We recommend using a good quality brand such as Gütermann or Coats
A sewing machine (if you don't have one you can choose to hire one from us for £10)
A sewing kit including scissors or rotary cutter, a quick unpick, pins, tailors chalk or fabric pen, tape measure or ruler, spare needles for your sewing machine. Kit is available to borrow if you don't have your own.
A zipper foot
A buttonhole foot
3 buttons
A 40x40cm cushion
£90. This course is aimed at confident beginners
Classes run for 3 weeks, on Tuesday 6th 13th and 20th January, from 6.30pm - 8.45pm at Saint Wilfrids Community Centre, Coltsgate Hill, Ripon HG4 2AB
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St Wilfrids Community Centre Ripon, Trinity Lane,Ripon, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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