Outdoor MamaSan cushion revisited

If the MamaSan already has a cushion, I would just try to copy it as close as I could as to size and cloth. Maybe take it apart to see how the innards are done. Maybe it is a foam seat that is covered round and round to make it the correct size? I would join the fiberfill roll by butting it together and using long hand stitches to join it. Just copy it the best that you can. But again, check to see what the cost will be. If you purchase the cloth or fiberfill from Hancock's or Joann's, you can use the 40% off coupon to save money on the canvas, and get a friend to go with you to use another coupon on something else. Don't forget to slide the fiberfill inside a plastic bag to make it easier to slide inside the canvas cover! HTH Barbara in SC

No cushion - apparently it was too moldy for the store to keep

stitches to join it.

hand sewing...ewww...I guess if I have tooo.......

No Hancocks or Joannes up here in the Great White North, only Fabricland. Need 4.5 metres of fabric, picked up plastic backed canvas @ $4 metre, cheap ?? to make fibre fill cover $1 metre, fibre fill I have so $0, ... so around $27 for material + time $?? and to order one is somewhere around

100 plus the shipping etc so not too bad a trade off. do have another question though if I want to make the outside cover removable could I make it slip cover style with a solid peice on top, then split the pattern peice and lengthen one side so that when sewn together it creates an overlap on the bottom side to slip the "pillow" in?

to slide inside the canvas cover!

Thanks for that tip will file it in my folder but since the fibre fill is going into a poly type fabric cover will I have as much of a problem? I figure it should slide into the outer cover fairly easily since the canvas is already plastic backed.

elaine

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The hand sewing stitches could be just overcast stitch and 2 - 3 inches apart, so it won't take too long to do. If you do the coushion in 2 or 3 day steps, it won't seem to take so long, or be so aggravating! Just thinking, but if you use foam seating cushions you could join the plastic bags with hand sewing to keep it from getting wet. I like you idea of overlapping the fabric in the back to be able to slide the cushion in and out easily. You just don't want the "innards" of poly to be getting wet---don't want anything to mold. Good luck with this project! Barbara