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Comic Book Cushions

Give your guests a comic book cushion to keep them entertained and make them comfortable.

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Cut out a rectangle out of your fabric. If you are using a cushion to stuff it then make sure to cut a large enough rectangle to cover it.
Take your fabric, width ways, and fold under 1cm of fabric and pin a zip underneath.
Sew the zip in to place using a sewing machine. Make sure not to sew on to the metal zipper or you will break your needle.
Fold over a cm on the other side of the rectangle and pin on to the zip.
Unzip the zipper and sew in to place.
Fold the fabric inside out, so that the wrong side of the zip is facing out. Half zip the zipper shut. Pin the open sides of the square together.
Sew up the first side.
Sew up the second side. Make sure the zipper is halfway unzipped before you start or getting in to it will be a nightmare.
Unzip the zipper fully and fold inside out. You have now made your cushion cover.
To decorate it, pick a page from your favourite comic book. Scan it in and then print it out on reverse. If you have a lazer printer this will work fine otherwise you will need to get a photocopy. Use the method described in the fabric printing tutorial to print the comic on to the cushion.
When the ink has dried use a black fabric pen to re-touch any areas that need to be.
Take a grey fabric pen and add mid-tones to the comic. Then fill the cushion cover, either with an old cushion or stuffing.

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Little Miss Meshell

Mar 5, 2006 2:26am

As always, AWESOME project! :) This came out beautifully, I just love comic book imagery on everything :)
MissMeshell xx

Cat Morley

Mar 7, 2006 2:45am

Hee hee, thanks sweetie. x

Richard Anderson

Mar 7, 2006 3:35am ago

Those cushions put the "OON" in cartoon.

Amanda

Jun 10, 2006 2:49am ago

I love your site- and I want to try this comic book pillow project but, how did you get the smell of turpentine out of the fabric? I would hate to lay down on it, and have the smell of turpentine everywhere. Thanks!

Cat Morley

Jun 27, 2006 9:59pm

There was actually no smell after I was finished, but you could febreeze or wash it and it would be fine.

natalia

Oct 14, 2006 4:23am ago

I really want to do this, but the link to the tutorial is DEAD. Do you know of another one so I can learn how to print fabric?

Phae

Mar 22, 2007 1:53pm ago

I would love to learn how to do this but the link doesn't work and there's nothing on the page other than a picture of what looks to be some fabric.

Phae

Mar 22, 2007 8:53pm ago

This is fantastic, I'm really interested in ryng this soon.

Krystal

Jun 12, 2007 7:02pm ago

I LOVE this! I also used the same idea to make a tote! It looks fantastic, had to make one for everyone I know!

Thanks so much!

Miss Nausea

Oct 4, 2007 5:03pm

fucking rad.

Tiffany S.

Oct 23, 2007 6:07pm

Groovy!

jennifer p.

Nov 30, 2007 7:58pm

I'm just a tad worried if I were to do this, would the turpentine have any affect on the person using the pillow.
I would LOVE to do this project, it looks great, but I wouldn't want anyone getting sick.
Any experiences with the turpentine making anyone ill?