Making Cushions and Covers - Softcover

Find out how to transform your home with 35 tailor-made projects ranging from removable loose chair covers, to a selection of scatter cushions. This book shows how to make scatter cushions in all their various forms, from bolsters with plain piped edges to simple, elegant designs with envelope fastenings, and chair covers. It offers ideas for practical footstool covers as well as for outdoor seating, with new covers for a deck chair, a director's chair, and a simple design for a loose cover to hide a plastic garden chair. A techniques chapter covers all the stitch basics, and there are hints and tips to help produce professional results whatever the level of skill.

Dorothy Wood is a creative embroiderer who trained to teach dressmaking and design technology before specialising in textiles and embroidery at Goldsmith's College, London. Dorothy works as a features writer and technical consultant for a number of craft and needlework magazines. As well as contributing to more than 20 craft titles, she is the author of Patchwork Primer, Embroidery and How to Sew.