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Learning Show Description

This unit follows on from AQA 117958 Basic sewing machine operation

🎨🧵 CREATE YOUR OWN CUSHION COVER! 🧵🎨

Join our exciting textile learning show and work towards an AQA Unit Award while learning practical sewing and creative design skills!

In this hands-on course, you will create and develop original cushion cover design ideas, make colour mood boards using mixed media techniques, and produce a final professional design plan.

Learners will gain confidence in both hand stitching and machine sewing skills, including inserting zips, and constructing a finished cushion cover.

Students will also explore the correct use of fabrics, tools, needles, pins and scissors while documenting the different stages of the making process through photography.

Perfect for beginners and creative learners who want to build confidence in textile art and sewing skills!

Course Objectives

Demonstrated the ability to:

1. produce at least two design ideas for a cushion cover prototype

2. produce a colour mood board in various mixed media, eg paint, fabric, collage

3. produce a final idea on paper for the cushion cover design

4. pin, tack and use simple stitches, including tacking and zig-zag, by hand and machine stitching to make the cushion

5. use needles, pins and scissors correctly

Shown knowledge of:

6. the appropriate equipment to use, eg dressmaking pins to tack fabric, silk painting pins to attach silk onto a wooden frame

7. the correct equipment needed for at least two different materials, eg fabric scissors for fabric, paper scissors for paper

Demonstrated the ability to:

8. use the electric sewing machine to secure the zip in place

9. sew the sides together using an electric sewing machine

10. take photographs to show the different stages involved in making the cushion cover.

Specialist
Resources Needed

Interactive Workbook Provided

Sewing machine - with a standard presser foot and a zip foot

Fabric Scissors

A cushion pad

Cotton Fabric in a colour of your choice - enough to make a cushion cover in a size to match the cushion pad you buy. For example a 40x40cm cushion pad will need a metre of fabric, avoid shiny slippery fabrics)

Zip - the zip should be the same length as one edge of your cushion (for example for a 40x40cm cushion, you will need a 40cm zip)

Cotton Thread
Dress Making Pins
Hand needle
Card or paper to create a moodboard
Paper to draw designs on
Pencil
Colouring pens
Glue
Collage materials
Paints for moodboard
Fabric Paints (optional)

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