ROOM OF MY OWN

BUNTING

Decorate their room with some cheerful shaped bunting! This project is lovely and simple and would make a quick and easy gift when that inevitable flurry of children’s birthday parties arrives, or you could even let children hand sew their own as a party idea!

HANGING STORAGE

If you’re short on floor space, hanging storage baskets are a great way of keeping things organised without filling up the room. You could also hang one in the wardrobe for socks and tights and on the back of the door for their hats and scarves.

STORAGE TUB

Toys, books, cushions, cuddlies or even laundry can all be neatly stored away in this fabric tub that they won’t mind having on display. Why not play around with dimensions and make a set of three in all different sizes and with contrasting fabrics?

RAINBOW CUSHION

Brighten up your little dreamer’s bed with a rainbow-shaped cushion. Mix and match prints and colours to make this as fun and bright as possible, and you could even customise it by appliquéing their name or by hanging some felt raindrops from the clouds.

HANGING STORAGE

YOU WILL NEED

■ Fabric A: 50x110cm, for a pocket

■ Fabric B: 50x110cm, for a pocket

■ Fabric C: 50x110cm, for a pocket

■ Canvas: 1mxx110cm, for the backing and hanging loops

■ Vlieseline Style-Vil foam: 1m

■ Dowel, 21mm wide: 42cm

■ Garden twine: 1m

■ Erasable fabric marker

■ Matching thread

■ Basic sewing kit

FABRICS USED

■ Fabrics are from the Onward &

Upward collection by Jessica Swift for Art Gallery Fabrics, artgalleryfabrics.com.

■ Vlieseline products supplied by vlieseline.com.

NOTES

■ Seam allowance is 1cm.

■ Use a walking foot if you have one.

CUTTING OUT

Step one From fabrics A, B and C for each fabric, cut the following pieces:

Pocket Outer and Lining: two 55x34cm

Step two From the foam cut:

Foam: three 55x34cm

Step three From the canvas cut:

Front and Back: two 35x100cm

Hanging Loops: two 10x15cm

MAKING THE STORAGE POCKET OUTERS

Step one Take one of the Pocket Outer pieces and use an erasable fabric marker to mark the following lines. Draw a 14x14cm square for each bottom corner – these will be cut away later and are where you box the bottom corners of the pocket. Next, draw two