Greetings dear community, today I share how I made a cushion with the figure of a cat, it is the first time that I made the technique called patchwork that according to Wikipedia is known in Spanish as Almazuela or Retazal, I had no idea of those two names because in my country when we see that a blanket or blanket is made by sewing patches of fabric we call them “crazy blankets”. I had wanted to do something with this technique for a long time using my sewing machine because it reduces the work time, before I had done things in patchwork completely by hand and the work is very long, I was inspired by @carolinacardoza who a while ago shared a cushion with a circular patchwork design and I loved it.
Materiales / Materiales
The fabrics I use are from recycling, the pink fabric was from an old bermuda boot and the pattern was from a boot from a jumpsuit that my niece turned into shorts, the blue fabric is from an old men's shirt that my sister gave me to recycle the fabric. The filling was from a pillow that was old. About the only new thing is the sewing threads.
Proceso / Process
The first thing I did was draw and cut a 10cm square on a paper to make a pattern, I measured and cut the pattern to make 8 pieces of pink fabric and 8 pieces of patterned fabric.
I sewed the fabric squares together, inserting them to form a complete square.
With the decreases of the seam, the square was 37 cm on each side, I took the blue fabric and drew and cut taking into account said measurement of the square.
While I was doing the above, an event happened that made my creativity flourish, until that moment I had not thought about making another design for the cushion, but while I was cutting the blue fabric I discovered my cat sleeping on top of my work and that is why I came up with making a design with a cat silhouette.
I sewed both sides of the fabric facing its front side.
I looked for any reference on the Internet just to see the silhouette of the cat and I drew with a white color directly on the fabric, I cut the figure leaving us margin for the seam, I superimposed the image on the fabric and secured with pins, I sewed by hand all over the edge of the cat.
I sewed the cushion again all over the edge with the machine but this time on the front side, I left a small space without sewing, filled the cushion and closed the edge by hand sewing.
Resultado / Result
When my sister and niece came to visit my house, I was in danger of running out of the cushion 😅 they both liked it so much that they wanted to take it with them. I hope you like it too.
Imágenes tomadas con dispositivo Samsung A12
Pictures taken with Samsung A12 device
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