Button Heart Cushion

I’ve had a pic­ture of a but­ton heart on one of my Pin­terest boards for a gazil­lion years.  It was one of those ‘one day I’ll make that’ pro­jects we all love to have but nev­er seem to find time to make.   Well thanks to Kerry @ Kidgiddy and her Sew Promp­ted 2016 Ins­tagram posts I’ve finally made it.   This week the photo prompt was… I’m sure you’ve guessed by now… but­tons.  It was really lovely to sit down at night to a little bit of hand sew­ing and I fig­ure sew­ing this many but­tons in one week means I can reas­on­ably excuse myself from any but­ton reat­tach­ing-mend­ing chores for the rest of my life!

I turned my but­ton heart into a 16″ cush­ion cov­er and will be gift­ing it to one of my daugh­ters friends for her birth­day in a couple of weeks time.     If you’d like to make a but­ton heart cush­ion you can down­load the tem­plate I made here.

I recom­mend cut­ting your fab­ric lar­ger than you need for the fin­ished cush­ion.   I cut mine at 18″ and adding some fus­ible inter­fa­cing to the back before start­ing.   Doing so will give the cush­ion pan­el some sta­bil­ity as those but­tons are sewn on.

Start by tra­cing the out­line of the heart tem­plate on to your fab­ric and then sew but­tons of ran­dom sizes around the out­line with coordin­at­ing or invis­ible thread.

After that add some lar­ger but­tons to the middle of the heart.

And then start filling in the spaces.

And before you know it your cush­ion pan­el will be done!

Before put­ting the cush­ion togeth­er it’s worth adding a lay­er of fus­ible bat­ting to the back of the cush­ion pan­el or anoth­er piece of fab­ric.   It’s not com­pletely neces­sary but it will ensure that any stray threads won’t get caught up or break later.

And of course, if you make one, I’d love to see it.   Don’t for­get to tag me on Ins­tagram or Facebook!

Until next time,