Feast of Colour Instructions

Feast of Colour Foot Stool

Notions:

3 meters or 3 yards of fabric (you may not need that much but I always buy extra fabric
1 zipper 35cm or 13 inch

1.5 meters or 60inches of fabric to contain stuffing for the stool

I used Goose and feathers to stuff the foot stool so I have no idea how much you would need as I buy the goose and feathers in large bags

Stitch out all the following designs on a background fabric of your choice

Feast of colour_01
Feast of colour_02
Feast of colour_02a
Feast of colour_03
Feast of colour_04
Feast of colour_05
Feast of colour_06
Feast of colour_07
Feast of colour_08
Feast of colour_09
Feast of colour_10
Feast of colour_11
Feast of colour_12
Feast of colour_13
Feast of colour_14
Feast of colour_15
Feast of colour_16
Feast of colour_17
Feast of colour_18
Feast of colour_19
Feast of colour_20
Feast of colour_21

Hot glue ightly the first panel “Feast of colour_01” then the following panels around “Feast of colour 02 and 02a” then “Feast of colour_03 to 10”

Close up of panel lightly hot glued down on the background fabric

Close up of zigzagging down each of the panels

Once you have zigzagged all the panels down, from the edge of the end panels using your straight stitch make a 5/8 inch seam allowance as you can see in the photos above (I used a pink coloured thread) now comes the fun bit :) over each of the satin stitch panels I used a variety of decorative stitches from your sewing machine also using similar coloured thread that is in the panels to cover the satin stitch this brings all the panels together...notice also the decorative stitches on the round and on the outer edge the gold stitch with another decorative stitch in red thread over the top

Stitch out the following designs “Feast of colour_11 to 21” stitch out an extra “Feast of colour_19 using a different colour combination”

Cut a length of fabric 135 x 20 cm or 53.1 x 7.9 inches this length of fabric will be longer than you will need

You will need the fabric to be longer as you may have to fill in a gap using your decorative stitches from your sewing machine (I will show you this later in the instructions)

Lightly hot glue each of the panels together to the length of fabric you just cut... you can do this a similar way to the photos below or how you would care to place the panels.

Zigzag stitch each of the panels down to the background fabric. After the last panel leave at least 13cm or 5 inches of spare background fabric

The following photos are showing you the decorative stitches used over the satin stitch borders once I had zigzagged stitched each of the panels down to the background fabric

I would also like to point out that I have used decorative stitches over one another using different coloured thread. Look closely at the photos

Using paper, make a template of the top the exact same size as the top (the reason why I used fabric as I did not think about leaving enough fabric for the zipper, one of those moments!!! :)

Cut around on the straight stitch seam you made earlier in Instruction No. 2

Add a bias piping to the edge

Pin the side panel to the top panel

I suggest after you have pinned the side and top panel together that you hand stitch the panels together, (Once you have everything placed properly to the top panel you can then machine stitch both the top and side panel together) do not hand stitch the first and last panel to the top panel as you can see in the photo above.

There will be a slight difference of joining the side panel to the top, to make up the difference I have used the decorative stitches in your sewing machine using similar colours that you have used through all the designs

Close up photo of the join to bring the side panels to the back side panel as in Instruction No. 15, as you can see I have had fun playing with the decorative stitches in this photo

Close up photo showing where I joined all the panels together as you can see where I did the decorative stitches from my sewing machine

The three photos above showing the side panel hand stitched to the top panel

Stitch over your hand stitching using your sewing machine

On a square piece of fabric insert a 35 cm or 13 inch zipper

Zipper inserted

For the base of the foot stool cut your fabric from your paper template that you had made in Instruction No. 10

Pin the base to the side panels not forgetting to leave a portion of the zipper open

Stitch the base to the side panels

Cut two pieces of fabric top and base from your paper template to make the lining for the foot stool. Cut the side panel to join the top and base panels. As you can see I used Goose and Duck feathers for the stuffing

Over the top of the bias piping I hand stitched on dingle dangles that I had bought in Dubai.

Instructions for the Striped Cushion

Stitch the design “Feast of Colour_40”

I am finally working with these fabrics that I bought at the Quilt and Craft fair at Darling Harbour ...love the prints...so much you can do with them...I have no affiliation with these fabric designers just by chance I went past their booth at a Craft Fair and just loved the prints...You can go to their website and look at their fabric prints http://www.printscharming.typepad.com/

I used cotton orange top stitch thread which is thicker than most orange bias piping

This is the printed fabric I bought from Prints Charming with the “Feast of Colour_40” stitched on the fabric

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Close up of the fabric and design stitched out

Using your triple straight stitch and the orange top cotton thread in between each of the pink rows this gives another dimension to the fabric

Around the cushion is an orange bias piping.

Instructions for the Striped Funky Cushion

Stitch out twice side by side “Feast of Colour_28”

The fabric is from Prints Charming hand painted which is the floral fabric on either side of the stripped centre panel

Red and white gingham ribbon

Green and white gingham bias tape

Red bias pipping

Striped fabric half a meter or half yard

Stitch on a complimentary striped fabric “Feast of Colour_28” twice side by side

Close up of stitches

Stitch the red and white gingham ribbon onto the stripped fabric

Stitch over the red and white gingham

Stitch onto the floral fabric the red bias piping

Stitch the floral fabric and piping onto the green and white gingham bias tape

Stitch around the cushion red bias piping

Blunder Bag

The reason why this bag is called The Blunder bag as it started off as a vest

I will give you information as to how I did this

This started off as a vest I stitched out 6 of the “Feast of Colour_22” then went and cut out the vest pattern. Realised once I had cut out the vest that the designs were too close to the front edge of the vest. So what do I do? I stitched extra fabric to the edge of the vest fabric, which looked something shocking for the front of the vest.

Now you would see the join, how do I cover the join?

The 6 designs “Feast of Colour_22” that I had originally stitched out were threaded in the sewing machine with each of the coloured threads and also gold metallic thread which gives a 3D look

Showing you a close up of the design “Feast of Colour_22” combining with each of the thread colours a gold metallic thread

What I decided to do ....I used a decorative stitch from the sewing machine a triple zigzag stitch using the same colours as the “Feast of Colour_22” design also adding the gold metallic thread.