Friday, 18 June 2021

Outdoor Cushions Finally Woven

 I have been planning these cushions for at least 2 years but life got in the way. I was determined to weave them this year and now they are finally finished. I am extremely happy with how they have turned out. 

I put on enough warp for 6 of them. I knew from my last cushions that the 5/2 cotton i have been using shrinks by about 3 inches after hot washing and running the fabric through the dryer, so I added about 2 more inches to my warp calculations .

The pattern that I picked is from somewhere on Pinterest and looked very busy on Paper but I put it into the iWeaveIt app and played around with the colours that i would be using and it ended up looking really nice. I chose Black and brown with a black weft.

Once again i used woven interfacing on the back of my fabric and finished with an invisible zip .

Here is my lovely new cushions.

Project notes

5/2 Mercerised Cotton.

22 in wide in reed

440 ends

20 ends per inch

4 Meter warp

Finished size before washing 19 1/2 inches

After washing 18 1/2



A Closeup of the design below.




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