My Brother's Birthday Present

Right, first of all, SORRY! It's been so long, I've kept meaning to write a post but forgot... and now it's been at least 4 months so here's a new post!

Update on me... not a lot's happened really... I'm ill at the moment with I don't even know what (It's a long story) and have been in bed for a whole week :( But I'm about the same... Honestly, nothing's really happened since I last posted!

So I thought I'd show you one thing I have been up in the last couple of months, and that is my brother's birthday! His birthday was in March and I decided to make him a cushion based on the game 'Minecraft' (Which I'm sure most of you will have heard of!). I took pictures as I went along so here they are!

NOTE: I didn't have a sewing machine when making this so it is all done by hand, so it's not the neatest but it's okay. I actually got a sewing machine about a week after his birthday... typical!

The first thing I did was design it, so I drew out what I wanted to do, worked out how I was going to do it and how much material I needed. I decided to make the cushion double-sided so there's another face on the back to make it more interesting :)

So I needed black, green and 2 purples, so here are my fabrics! I got half a metre of the green and a metre of the black which was more than enough, and borrowed some leftover purples from a friend.

So yeah, I kinda cheated! I glued the faces on because I didn't have a sewing machine with this fabric glue. I tried doing applique by hand but it was just way too messy so I cheated.

So this is the creeper side (front) before stuffing...

and this is the enderman side before stuffing!! They're not too neat and some of the fabric is fraying a little but I was pleased with it :)

This is the stuffing to go inside the cushion... I used it all and just got it from an old living room cushion we had and din't want anymore :)

half-stuffed cushion...

and done! This is the cushion completely stuffed, and you can see where it's fraying a little in this picture, but I don't think it went too badly :)

Haha, although it looks a little out of place in my room here it is, next to a cushion I made in Textiles and the horse my nan sewed :) sewed... sewn... whatever the word is, you know what I mean!

And here's the 'Enderman' side of the cushion!

It turned out quite big, so to show you how big it is here's a size comparison with my favourite harry potter movie! It's a square cushion and turned out two harry potter movies tall and wide :) haha

Since I needed to hide it from my brother in the few days before his birthday, this was my hiding method! Can you find it?

And here it is in Nick's Manchested United room! haha :)

So this was just something I did that I thought I'd show you, and I think it turned out quite well if I may say so! He was pleased with it and seems to like it, so I'd say it was a success :D

Thanks for reading and sorry for the delay in posts! I'll try to post soon :)

KellyKat :) x