Sequin cushions equals a glitter bomb

A while ago Alex AKA as my lovely daughter in law and I were out shopping.  We usually go together to certain shops and it is pretty much a certainty the fabric shop and Lush shop will be involved. The fabric shop had this sequin fabric that has 2 colours that change as you rub it in either direction, they had many colours and Alex chose green/silver sequins and black velvet for the back of the cushions.  Today was the day I chose to make these cushion covers. I had heard sewing sequin fabric could be a nightmare and so could velvet. Only problem I had was the sequins after I cut out the square fronts turned into a glitter bomb!  The photo below shows the sequins that came off after cutting one square out. It still continued to drop part cut sequins everywhere afterwards. A pain but oh so pretty.

I realised when I got the fabric home that the fabric the sequins are sewn to is only a fine mesh. I took a sheet someone gave me as it had a hole in it and cut out squares the same size as the sequin squares.  I sewed them right sides together leaving a few inches gap to turn it all right sides out, then top stitched round the edges securing it and sewing the gap shut. 

 The velvet was cut in 2 pieces per cushion cover. each one about 2/3 in height as the front square and as wide as the sequin square. I finished the edges off with my serger, I could of used a zig zag stitch to do this to.  I then did one edge of each one with a double sewn edge for the edges that overlap each other as this is where the cushion will fit into the cushion cover.  I pinned the first one to the top.

And the other one to the other end so they overlapped.  Making an envelope cushion cover. I sewed round all 4 sides and turned right sides out.

Which left me with 3 cushion covers altogether. 2 ready to be re homed with Alex and my son Paul. I can see the pair of them having much fun writing sweet and rude things in these cushions. 

All in all I had no problems at all. I did a bit of reading up first and  cut the sequin fabric with the sequins facing down and used a denim needle in my sewing machine.  It seemed to have done the trick and I spent a lovely couple of hours with pretty sparkles everywhere.  I think it will be a while before they stop showing up. But you can never have enough glitter right?

Take care

Jules