Showing posts with label free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free. Show all posts

Friday, February 08, 2013

Garden Bench Seat

I have this lovely "old" bench seat in the garden.  It is placed under a shady tea tree, but looks a little unloved



Notice that pile of bricks to the left of the photo?  That is all the bricks I pulled up from the pergola floor, before it was laid with concrete.

Back to the bench, I had some pieces of packing foam that was just the right size.



An unused, flannel backed tablecloth ...



Now I was ready to make my cushion for the garden bench.  I just laid the foam on top of the tablecloth.
(I did sew the 2 pieces of foam together in the middle, so that they would not move) .. I cut the tablecloth to size, and then folded over the cut side, and hand sewed that to the foam.



Then brought the other side over, and sewed that down



Now what to do with those ends?



I just imagined that I was wrapping a gift, folded in the corners, and sewed down the ends



My garden bench seat is looking heaps better



Now remember that "No-Sew Cushion"  I made, see here.  It was the ideal cushion to make this seat more inviting



Cost = Nil
Time = Approx 1 hour



A lovely inviting seat to have my morning coffee.  I do not know how the seat will handle the weather, but for a zero cost project it does not really matter.

I have a little piece of tablecloth fabric remaining, I wonder what I can do with it?

Judy

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Easter Freebies

Over at the Old Road Primitives Blog Kim has two printable freebies for Easter ..
One to cover a small chocolate bar to look like a Easter rabbit


Click here to download

The other printable allows you to cover small wrapped sweets, for Easter giving.



Click here to download

Something different to pop in your Easter Basket this year?

Judy

Monday, June 28, 2010

Snowman Peg Ornaments


Continuing with the winter theme, I have made a couple of snowman peg ornaments, this is a free pattern available on the The Olde Country Cupboard blog. These were very quick and easy to make, and I am sure to make some more this week. Tonight was just a trial run, you know how it is?

It is so hard to take a photo of white, the flash seems to bounce back off it, and as you can tell from my photos, I still have an awful lot to learn but please bear with me. I wonder when I will find the time to learn how to do it?

Does anyone in Australia put up a Christmas tree for "Christmas In July"? Wouldn't one look great adorned with snowflakes and snowman ornaments?

Food for thought!
Judy