Spring Wonky Street Pillow

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Spring Wonky Street Pillow

Spring is here! Celebrate the new season with the third cushion in my collection of seasonal street-scene pillow covers.

It’s spring in Wonky Street, the days are getting lighter and warmer, and the flowers are in bloom! The greenery for the flowers is worked first by machine and then the flowers and larger leaves are added with simple French knots, cross stitches and lazy-daisy stitches, creating a sense of depth. You’ll want yellow and orange embroidery thread/floss for the daffodils, but you can choose whatever colours you like or already have for the other flowers. And if you don’t fancy hand sewing, you can work all the flowers with machine stitch – or even use beads.

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You will need:

Equipment

  • Sewing machine
  • Fabric shears
  • Hand embroidery needle
  • Hand-sewing needle
  • Free-motion embroidery/darning foot
  • Erasable fabric marker pen

Materials

  • 40 x 34in (100 x 86cm) of natural-coloured cotton
  • Scraps of pastel fabric, both plain and patterned, for the appliqué
  • Stranded embroidery thread/floss in pink, red, yellow, orange, lilac and green – I used two shades of green, but you can get away with more or fewer colours, depending on what you have
  • Machine thread in light and dark green plus a dark colour – I used dark brown
  • Fusible adhesive sheet
  • 17in (43cm) square of lightweight fusible interfacing
  • 16in (40cm) square pillow pad

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