Make your own mushroom shaped mini cushion (and a bonus acorn!) with this tea towel craft kit or keep in one piece and use it as a tea towel to dry your dishes.
How to make
You will need
- A Make Your Own Mushroom Cushion Tea Towel Craft Kit
- A pair of sharp scissors (ideally fabric scissors) or pinking shears
- Dressmaker’s pins
- A sewing needle and thread (for hand stitching), or a sewing machine
- Material for stuffing your bear (this can be toy stuffing, yarn scraps, pulses – whatever you prefer to use!)
- A steam iron
Instructions
- Iron your fabric so as to remove any creases.
- Cut around each shape using a sharp pair of fabric scissors. Put the two brown acorn pieces to one side.
- Place the front and back of the two red mushroom shapes right sides together, line them up and pin the two sides together.
- Using a sewing machine or by hand, sew a line 1 cm from the edge of your cut shapes – be sure to leave an opening of around 5cm so you can stuff your mushroom later. If you’re using a sewing machine, use a backstitch to reinforce the opening.
- Remove the pins and turn the sewn shape through the opening so that the right sides are now on the outside.
- Fill the house using whatever material you choose. We recommend using recycled polyester toy stuffing (you can buy this from a haberdashery shop). You can also use any scrap fabrics or yarn that you might have at home – even a few old pairs of socks or tights – or dried pulses such as lentils.You could even fill the acorn with dried lavender to make a moth-repellent mini cushion!
- Once you are happy with the shape and feel of your mushroom, sew the opening closed by hand using a needle and thread.
- Repeat steps 3-7 with the two brown acorn shapes.
Dimensions
Tea towel measures 48 x 76 cm
Materials
100% linen, screen printed in the UK.
Note
Stuffing is not included.
Machine washes at 40°C. Do not tumble dry.
Country of origin
UK
