The photo to the left shows the placemat which I purchased at “Country Road” Australia; you are able to purchase so many beautiful placemats in many stores through out the world today.

Purchase two placemats the same

Hoop 2 layers of stabilizer and thin wadding

Do not hoop the placemat as the placemat is a thick fabric and would jump out of your hoop at the most inappropriate time

Print out in “Actual Size” the two designs

Mark the centre of both the print outs and cut around each of the designs

FRONT OF CUSHION 

Mark the centre of the placemat with chalk or marking pen. Place the placemat on top of the hoop, line up the centre of the placemat with your needle

BACK OF CUSHION 

Place the placemat on top of the hoop

Stitch your hoop template to both front and back placemat, this makes sure that the placemat will not move while stitching out both the front and back design of the cushion

For the front of the placemat cushion, stitch on the placemat in the centre the following design “Earthly Pleasures_14”

For the back of the placemat cushion, to the bottom right, stitch the following design “Earthly Pleasures_08”

Front of the placemat cushion

Back of the placemat cushion

2 sheets of “Cut Away” stabilizer

Cotton fabric (I have used old sheeting)

Thick wadding

Your choice of fabric to stitch Earthly Pleasures_01

This box was covered in a linen type fabric when I purchased it

Cardboard from an old box

Lay the top of the box over the cardboard and with a pen draw around the box

Template of the box top

Cut the templatex

Cut another piece of cardboard to make a thick lid and glue the two pieces of cardboard together

Cut 4 pieces of cardboard for the inside of the lid but make them to fit snug into the box, glue all four pieces of cardboard together

Mark the centre of the lid on the cardboard

Mark the centre of Earthly Pleasures_01

Line the embroidery with your cardboard lid

Glue the embroidered fabric to the lid

Inside of the lid 4 pieces of cardboard glued together

Glue a piece of thick wadding to the 4 pieces of cardboard

Cut a piece of fabric large enough to go over the inside lid 

Glue the fabric onto the inside lid

Lid and inside of lid

Glue the inside lid to the top lid

Top lid and inside lid

Lid fits perfectly to the box

Another view of lid

Once again another view of the box and lid

Stitch out on a white fabric either Earthly Pleasures_10 or Earthly Pleasures_13 which ever hoop size you wish to use

To make your plain green fabric blend with the Earthly pleasures design I suggest you try using the following decorative stitches from your sewing machine

Single straight stitch Length= 2.5

Back stitch Length =4.0

Double zigzag triple stitch (this is in the Utility Stitch section) Length =0.5 Width=6.0

I started by using the straight stitch first then using the edge guide stitched on either side of the straight stitch the back stitch, repeat all the way along the fabric then I stitched the triple zigzag stitch. This is a very simple but most effective way of combining both the Earthly pleasure design and your decorative stitches.

Once you have finished stitching the decorative stitches on the green fabric, stitch the white fabric and green fabric together and make the cushion.

Joining the two fabrics together

All finished

This would look fabulous with another cushion just using the green fabric with the decorative stitches and another cushion with just the design on the same white fabric. Would make a stunning combination on your settee

Hopping 2 layers of “Cut Away” and medium weight wadding, laying the black fabric over the hoop as shown in the photo

Pinning the black fabric to the stabilizers and wadding

Putting the needle over the point I had marked on the black fabric for Earthly pleasures_02

Hoop your 2 layers of “Cut Away” and the medium weight wadding

Print out “Actual Size” of Earthly pleasures_01 and Earthly pleasures_02

Mark the centre of both your print outs

Cut around both designs

Lay your cut out print of Earthly pleasures_01 on your fabric and mark the position you would like the design on your black fabric

Lay the black fabric over the top of your hoop and position the needle over where you marked the design

Pin your fabric down or stitch your template of the hoop

Stitch out Earthly pleasures_01

Take your fabric, wadding and “Cut Away” out of your hoop

Cut away your wadding and “Cut Away”

Hoop another 2 layers of “Cut Away” and medium weight wadding

Lay your cut out print of Earthly pleasures_02 on your fabric and mark the position you would like the design on your black fabric, you can see in the close up where I started Earthly pleasures_02, it really does not matter all that much where you would like to position Earthly pleasures_02 with this design, have a play!

Lay the black fabric over the top of your hoop and position the needle over where you marked the design

Pin your fabric down or stitch your template of the hoop

Stitch out Earthly pleasures_02

Both Earthly pleasures_01 and 02 combined

Making a template for the wall hanging using tracing paper

Design a template to what ever would best suite you; I am showing you how I went about doing this template. I drew it out first and then put a crease down the centre and was able to trace the other side to make a mirror image

The template of the wall hanging on the tracing paper

These are the exact measurement of the wall hanging in the photo

Cut out cardboard using your tracing paper template

Lay over the cardboard, medium weight wadding and glue to the cardboard

Lay the black fabric over the wadding and glue the black fabric to the back

Cut out another cardboard template but making it smaller

Lay over the cardboard another piece of wadding and glue, then lie over the wadding, black fabric and glue it down

Glue both cardboards together as shown in the photo

Showing both cardboards glued together

Using venation blind cording I stapled both ends down to hang the wall hanging

I stitched this beautiful tassel onto the back of the wall hanging. I purchased this tassel when in Maui about 4 years ago, since then I have seen so many fabulous tassels in many stores these days

I think this wall hanging is so beautiful, I just love it!!!