Pinaddicts Challenge June 2012

Ever since I saw these I REALLY wanted to make one.

I popped it on my Pinterest board so that I could trace back to the blog called Design Dazzle and further back to the tutorial by Living With Punks.

So early in April when I was after my next Pinaddicts projects, this jumped out at me.....

I wasn't sure how I would get on with the piping.....but braved it anyway!

I used 3 pieces of fabric left over from making a blind for Little Ladys bedroom (all Laura Ashley) and picked up the piping from The Cloth Store in Horsham.

I folded some dressmakers paper into a quarter and drew an arc 8 inches from the centre to make a paper template like this............

Open it out and you have a 16" circle.......

 Pin it to your fabrics and cut 2 circles like this...........

and pin the piping to the round pieces of fabric like this........

Make your handle if you want one and attach it to the long length of fabric (sorry no photo but I'm sure you'll get the idea when you see the finished article!)

Sew the piping to the circles, do it in a contrasting thread and there's no need to be 'snug' this time around (you'll see why later).

Take the long length of fabric that is the side and with wrong sides together pin it to a circle, easing it around the curve, like this.........

(Sorry, not a great explanatory shot!),

Where the 2 ends of the side meet, just overlap them laying them to one side for stitching.  Stitch round, close to the piping (with a zipper foot) and make it snug...you'll need to follow the contrasting stitching....get it now!

Repeat with the second circle.....

The tutorial says to leave a gap for stuffing.  I didn't as I didn't sew up the side seam and used that opening for stuffing instead.


I stuffed it and hand stitched the opening closed.  I didn't have too much trouble with the piping either, this is where it 'joins' .......

Not bad eh?

So are you ready for the big reveal?

{sooooooo excited to show you}

Ta-Daaaahh!!.......

What do you think?  My Teenage Daughter is so impressed she said it looks shop bought!  And as expected she's put in her order for one with a pocket on the side for her iPod, remote and/or phone!  Nothing too demanding then!!!!!

Little Lady loves to sit on hers a flop backwards into a roly-poly, she's lugged it up and down stairs like she can't bear to be parted from it!  The best is when she flops on it and hugs it....aahhhh!

I hope it inspires you to have a go....why not miss out the piping, add pockets, use jeans for a hardwearing fabric....patchwork something together to cut the circles and side from...pop a button through the middle...instead of using piping why not try ric-rac, fringing, gathered ribbon......I could go on...the possibilities are endless!

If you want to take a look at the rest of this months entries then Blog'Hop' on over to   Simplyoutnumbered, why not join in with an entry from your Pinterest Boards.

Anyway, I'm off to finalise next months entry...see you soon,

Nora xx