Over the past week I have been busy stitching away lots of new decor for my garden using all the lovely Gutermann fabric from the Notting Hill collection...
For my book 'Torie Jayne's Stylish Home Sewing I made a bench cushion along with scatter cushions that sit in my Summer house and a couple of deck chair covers and last year I made another bench cushion this time for my arbour bench and another deck chair cover with a cross stitch honey bee with a matching scatter cushion for the arbour bench. Everything I have made for the garden so far has been in a pretty colour palette of mauves, lilacs, lavenders and mint. So this year I was determined to make six new seat cushion covers for my large outdoor dining table to replace the stone and white spot ones with pale blue piping that I made to match our old garden decor, after stitching over 20 metres of piping I am almost finished with them and will of course share them here. But in the mean time I wanted to share with you my new table cloth for our large outdoor table. It gets pretty windy round here as we are so close to Dartmoor that I really wanted a fitted tablecloth rather than a weighted one, that would fit snugly over my table. I chose to make the top in the oh so pretty 'flower ornament fabric in white' and the hem in the matching 'Chevron hill fabric in mauve'. As a big lover of pom poms I edged the hem using a pastel violet pom pom trim. To make the tablecloth hardwearing I fused interfacing to the underside of the top using Vlieseline Fusible Interlining H250 which helps give it a really lovely structure.
I am umming and aahing at the moment on adding a plastic curtain eyelet to the centre so that we can use it with our sun parasol, If I do decide to add one I will of course show you how here...
Gutermann fabrics available from My Fabrics
Here is my Outdoor pom pom trim tablecloth tutorial...
