Quick Sewing Project – Puffed Pictures
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These pictures are a nice home décor pattern.
Pick Your Picture
Start by finding a piece of sturdy material with good-sized pictures as the pattern. An example would be a piece of material with dogs or cats or horses as the pattern. Upholstery material works well for this.
Cut out one of the pictures in a square, rectangle or oval – whatever shape you want the finished picture to be. Just make sure you can find a frame to fit it, especially for an oval! Include an extra inch of material all the way around the edges for use when framing the picture. This part will be covered by the frame so it doesn’t matter if it’s only got parts of other patterns.
Another alternative would be to use a big quilting square that has a picture. These are sometimes sold to make pillows, but would also work well to make one of these pictures.
Now Line The Picture
For the lining, cut out a piece of muslin or other lighter weight material, making it the same size and shape as the pattern you cut out from the patterned material. You can lay the first piece over top your lightweight material and trace around it to be sure you get both the same size.
Next, place the two pieces of material together, with the right sides of the materials facing outwards. The reason for this is if you sew them so the right sides of the material are on the inside, then turn the project to get the right side out, you’ll have a thicker bunch of material around the edges that you probably won’t want when it comes time to frame the picture. It’s okay to be able to see the stitching since this part will be covered by the frame anyway.
Sew the two pieces of material together about a half inch from the edges.
Puffing The Picture
Next, sew around the outline of the parts of the picture you want to stand out, like the animals or whatever is in the pattern you chose. Be sure to sew through both pieces of fabric.
Once you’ve done that, make a small slit in the lightweight material just big enough to stuff cotton balls in, or batting, or whatever you want to use to make the picture puff out.
When you get the picture puffed out to your satisfaction, hand sew the small slit(s) in the material closed.
Although no one is going to see the back of the picture in the frame, if you want to make it look pristine, sew a 3rd layer of light weight material on the back.
Framed, One Fine Picture
To keep the project from getting dirty, you can spray it with Scotchgard Fabric protector or something similar.
The last step is to frame the picture, and there you have it! A lovely puffed picture you can make to fit any décor.
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