I decided to make a doorstop to match my blue/pink cushion, these are going to be used in my office in my new house.
I love these little doorstops I have a grip seal bag inside mine the first one I made I used sand but this one is filled with rice and took a 1kg bag.
Ive figured out how to make them now without any zips or hand sewing, but with a concealed opening so that you can fill the bag inside with rice, lentils etc and this way you can get into it easily to change the rice etc should it start to perish.
Well Ive wanted to make one of these for ages and I saw one in a magazine this week, then saw Debbie Shore on TV showing one she had made with the ‘Brother’ sewing machine Pick of the day on Ideal world TV.
The machine she was showing was my sewing machine that I bought in June this year. I had also picked up a lovely pale blue remnant whilst out last week so decided I would finally make my cushion, so with the aid of some pink gingham and plain white fabric, here it is.
I love it.
I made these simple envelope style cushions recently to tone down my conservatory furniture which have a kind of nondescript pattern in gold/rust/taupe colours.
This fabric matched perfectly with the gold tone so I made 4, then LouP on UKscrappers asked for help with a simple sewn gift idea she wanted to make and I remembered that I had seen a door stop idea in a mag and on the net.
So I decided I would make one with the left over fabric from my cushions. I added a bit of applique detail using scraps of fabric and felt.
I designed a simple house shape and cut the pattern from card using my Pazzles Inspiration, which I then drew around onto the fabric and cut.
I used an applique stich which is on my sewing machine.
I have filled the inside with sand which is inside a ziplock bag and added just a bit of toy stuffing on top before I stitched it closed.
I love how it has turned out and think I will be making more of these.