With the threat of my sewing machines being unplugged and my sewing room being temporarily out of commission while it's painted in anticipation of our new plantation shutters installed this week - I raced to make a couple of new cushions for the couch. 

"More cushions?" I hear you ask. Why yes, I did.

Our couch has some cheap and ugly plain grey cushions which I bought from Kmart last year. They were only around $3, don't have zips, which means that the covers can't be removed to be washed. I ended up throwing 4 in the washing machine at once (that's all that would fit) and then laid them out in the back garden to dry. They ended up looking quite wonky and lumpy. 

I decided that I needed to make some quilted cushion covers that the wonky grey cushions would be used as the inserts.

I chose pretty Rosalie Dekker fabrics in a linen/cotton which I had been holding on to for years. After sandwiching with the pretty floral fabric, batting and ugly fabric in the back, I machine stitched some very rustic-looking lines.

I added a bunch of big stitch hand quilting in between the machine quilted lines using Aurifil 12wt thread in coordinating colours. It's a really lovely slow process and I quite like the dimpled effect.

I used an old Liberty Cotton fabric for the back of both cushions. I think they look great. My husband also must think they look great because after I'd placed them down for some photos, and turned my back momentarily, he came in from walking the dogs and sat right on them. 

Not beside them. ON THEM! Grumble, grumble, grrrr, grrrrr.