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Reminiscent of sunny days at the beach, these whimsical ice cream cushions would make a fun addition to a child’s play room or outdoor area. Made using a selection of delectable cotton printsand adorned with colourful ric rac and button ‘hundreds and thousands’, both scrumptious lolly designs will have you licking your lips all year round.
Stitch an ice cream cushion
Download the templates and print. Pin the whole ice cream shape to yellow striped fabric and cut out. Transfer the diagonal lines indicated on the template onto the material and topstitch in a darker thread. Cut the small ice cream shape from dark pink patterned fabric and the large ice cream template from pink spotted fabric.
Lay the large pink spotted ice cream shape over the striped whole ice cream piece, matching up the shaped sides, and pin into place. Machine stitch around the wavy edge, where the colour change occurs. Pin the small, dark pink shape at the top and machine stitch around the wavy edge as before.
Pin large pink ric rac across the colour change between the spotted and striped fabric, and machine stitch into place. Pin small ric rac across the colour change between the pink spotted and dark pink fabric and stitch. Sew buttons as shown, spacing them evenly. Add felt flowers across the small ric rac.
Cut a 30cm x 40cm piece of pink spotted fabric. Press down and machine stitch a double hem at the longest edge. Cut another piece of pink spotted cotton measuring 40cm x 46cm. Press down and machine stitch a double hem at the shortest edge. Sew a length of large ric rac across the shortest edge.
Position the larger section on top of the smaller one, overlapping it by 5cm, and pin the sides together. Pin the whole ice cream template to the fabric, matching up the break line as indicated on the pattern, and cut
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