The One About the Zipper

I did it! And I lived to tell the tale. Oh my word, it wasn't plain sailing and I sounded like the sailor I once was, but I did it. Woohoo!

Here's a quick summary of what I have done this afternoon.

I finished piecing, I layered and I basted.

I then did a quick stipple.
I never thought I would be able to say that a few years ago.
It just goes to show that anything is possible!

I found out I do own a zipper foot.
I got a number of feet for my machine and I don't have a clue what most of them are for.

I then promptly forgot to take any photos of my progress

because I was concentrating so hard.

So no sewing piccies.

No seam unpicking piccies. (Shame!)

And no zipper insertion piccies.

You are left with the final result.

It's a little bit wonky.

The zipper only looks 'invisible' from this angle.

And I learned - the hard way as per usual - that you shouldn't buy zippers
that are as long as the cushion is wide.
Harder to hide them when they are like this.

But you know what? I did it. I put a zipper in a cushion.

All by myself.

And it didn't make me cry.

Or lose my mind with aggravation.

That's kind of cool (in my not so cool world).

I made a zippered cushion!

I'm ever so happy.

Susan