An easy present for boys!

To make this envelope cushion cover to fit a 45cm square cushion you'll need:

A piece of yellow material for the Lego man and a Lego man template. You can make this any size you like. 

A piece of fusible interfacing so you can iron your Lego man onto your cushion fabric. 

Cushion fabric - three pieces measuring 18"x18" (the front of the cushion), 18"x14, and 18"x12" (the two back pieces which will overlap creating an envelope opening. No zips!!!)

Print out and trace your Lego man onto your fusible interfacing then iron that onto your yellow fabric. The interfacing I use is double sided so I ironed it onto the yellow fabric then cut out the yellow Lego man, peel off the backing and...

These pieces will still measure 18".  You are folding, ironing and sewing the 14" side and 12" side. 

I like to use my 14" back piece first, then the 12" inch piece.  This gives the rear of the cushion a nice long covering on its envelope back. 

I say this with my tongue firmly in my cheek! I am very much in the camp of 'close enough, good enough' with my sewing, cutting and measuring!

I've made two of those now for boy's birthday presents this weekend. I may add a mini figure with them for good measure in case the birthday boy's are not huge fans of soft furnishings! 

 

Told you it was easy!

Parenting Milestones

"I spy with my little eye something begging with L"

How did I possibly manage to survive two boy children, both of whom never put anything where it didn't belong, only to have the girl child stick lego up her nostril! 

One quick trip to the doctor later and the offending piece has been tweezered out and a certain young lady is swearing and declaring she didn't put it up there, that it must have been her brother's!!!!  So not only is she a lego snorter, she is a fibber too!

I hereby retract my previous post about poor Isaac being Trouble and re-label this one with the title!

Something you bought.

Lego stationary from Big W if anyone else has lego obesessed small people out there!  At the moment, it is mostly earmarked for birthday presents but one or two items are purely for bribery purposes!

part of fatmumslim's photo a day challenge

11 years.

Today is our wedding anniversary.

6th January 2001 - on the rocks at the Devonport Bluff in Tasmania

Some days I wish I could push him off that cliff type thing we were standing on but mostly it's been lovely.

And since we live in the house of lego at the moment, when I found this card I knew I had to bring it home and replicate it...

'You make my heart complete'