5.+Production

__ Production __

I have finally now decided on the design for my pillow that I will be making. Now I have to think about my production and the order that I will be making my pillow in. I am going to make most of my components first and then start on sewing all the components back on to my pillow. I have 10 lessons left (23rd of May 2011) in order to complete my pillow. So that means that I have ten hours to make everything, sew it onto my pillow and then sew the pillow all together and stuff it. Though, due to me getting braces and then a bite corrector on another day I will be missing out on 2 lessons, which means I only have 8 lessons and 8 hours to complete my pillow at school.

One thing that I am very conscious of is that I don’t what to rushing and produce a pillow that it going to start to break as soon as I start using it. I want my pillow to be good equality that is better than pillows in the shop.

Before I produce my pillow I will need to go and purchase my materials from the shop because my school only gave me 1 metre of white fabric to use to make my pillow. The things that I will need to purchase are:


 * 1m Purple Fabric
 * Swarovski Crystal Bead
 * 20cm White Felt
 * White Embroidery Thread
 * White Ribbon
 * Black Ribbon
 * Purple Cotton
 * White Cotton
 * Black Cotton

I have to purchase all these things and keep my budget of $30.00. *I realize that Swarovski Crystal Beads are expensive so I am purchasing them over the internet at $10.99. This is very cheap compared to other prices.

My steps are going to be in order, but I am not making them to be per lesson as I may do work at home which won't work with my plan.



Steps: **1.** Before you can start to cut out all of your elements for your pillow, you have to have templates. Use butcher paper to cut out all of your templates. You need templates for: <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**2.** Get your fabric and fold it in half making sure both ends are touching each other. Get your template out for your pillow and place it on your fabric. Find the center and draw a line horizontally. That line is called the grain line. Next put 2 pins on that line. Measure from the grain line to the end of the fabric and make sure that it is the same length on each side. Then you can cut out your fabric.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Pillow with seam allowance added
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">The appliqué leaf design - have three different sizes of leaves
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">A petal for the handmade flowers – this petal will be the size of each petal that you cut out for when you make the flowers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Leaf design for the hand embroidered flower for back of the pillow


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Get you white ribbon and cut it to 35cm so that it is the same length as your pillow. Use a ruler and tailors chalk to mark it to the right length and then use fabric scissors to cut you ribbon.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**4.** I using the same method as step 3 cut you black ribbon that is thinner in width than your white ribbon and then cut it to 35cm so it is the same length. Make sure that you don’t cut it shorter than the white as it won't look good on the pillow.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">*It is better to cut them longer than the length of your pillow and past you seem allowance as you can cut it shorter if necessary. Also, as ribbon can fray a lot, be sure to make it longer as it will allow a lee way for it to fray. When you are sewing the pillow together, the ribbon will go past the seam allowance, so don’t be concerned about going past the pillows real size.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">** 5. **Following the pillows design place the white ribbon about 5cm from the edge. Pin it down to keep it in place. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**6.** As ribbon fabric is slippery, tack the fabric down with a needle and thread. Look at techniques to see how to tack down the fabric.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**8.** Using a sewing machine sew a straight line up each side of the white and black ribbon.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">7. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Now put the black ribbon in the center of the white and tack that down the same way as the white.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">* When you are sewing the ribbon make sure that for the white ribbon sew up one way and then down the other way so in opposite directions so the ribbon isn't pull one way. Do the same thing with the black ribbon.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;"> 9. Cut a piece around 20cm by 20 cm out of your white felt. Now using your piece of visavix cut it slightly smaller than 20cm by 20cm and irons it on. (This is starting your appliqué - technique 1)

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**10.** Using your leaf templates for appliqué, cut around 8 of each size of leaf. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**11.** Place all your leaves on the pillow in places that you would like them. Use tailor's chalk to join all the leaves together and create a design that you like.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**12.** Iron on your leaves to keep them firmly in place. Let the iron rest on the pieces of appliqué to make the glue stick. (You have now finished the appliqué technique.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">13. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Now that you leaves are in place, you can now hand embroider the leaves. Look at stem stitch under techniques to work out how to achieve stem stitch.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">* Stem stitch is a very good stitch as it is used to sew on stems. There are no breaks in the stitch meaning that it will work very well when you want to sew a line. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">** 14. **You can now start on another technique for your pillow. Make three handmade flowers by following the 'Handmade Flowers' under the techniques. Make sure that some two are smaller than the third. So one being big and then the other two being slightly smaller than the other ones.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**15.** Put you three flowers together in a clump and the biggest one being at the right top corner of the pillow. Follow design to see further. Sew them on using a normal sewing technique.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**16.** Go back to your white and black ribbon on the left side of your pillow. Draw a line in the centre of the black ribbon using tailors chalk to get ready for putting on the Swarovski beads. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**17.** Using the technique of beading use your Swarovski beads and sew them onto the pillow. Make a straight line so that they are all in line and looking straight. Look under techniques, beading to find out how to bead the pillow.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**18.** Get your other half of your pillow and place your leaf template at the back of the pillow in the centre. Pin the template down and then use tailors chalk to mark out the leaf. Use the stem stitch once again to embroider the leaf design on.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**19.** Using a sewing machine, sew the pillow together. Put the pillows together so that the sides with the designs are facing each other and the sides that have no designs are facing outwards. Pin them together allowing a seam allowance of 1.5cm. Though make sure you leave a hole at the bottom to put in the stuffing later.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**20.** Using the technique of the corner seam, sew the pillow together, but make sure you don't sew the hole together yet. Look under techniques to see how to do the corner seam. (Remember to cut the bulk off)

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**21.** Now that your pillow is sown together, pull it inside out so that the design is facing you. Stuff the pillow or put in an insert to make the pillow soft and possible to lie on.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">**22.** Use ladder stitch to sew the hole together and make the pillow complete. See under techniques how to do ladder stitch.

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Tacking down your ribbon is non-permanent stitch that is used to hold things down temporally so that you can sew it with a machine without the fabric slipping. This is great to use in ribbon and other materials that tend to not stay down very well.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">__Tacking Down Fabric (Basting)__ **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Steps: **


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Use a needle and thread and put the needle through the fabric making the knot on the wrong side of the fabric.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Now that you needle is through the fabric put it into the fabric downwards and pull it downwards.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Continue to repeat this step all the way up the fabric.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Stem Stitch **__

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">A stem stitch is very good to use as an embroidery stitch as it kind of looks like a rope and is great for embroidering branches as it has no breaks in the line. It is very good for shapes or that curve and also curls in the line of embroidery.

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__**<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Hand Made Flowers **__

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Handmade flowers are great to put onto pillows to give them a beautiful girly style. They them topped off with some beads in the middle. They are great for making pillows for girls are really beautiful and sweet as a decoration.




 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Steps: **


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Using your templates pin it onto the fabric cut out around 27 leaves to put as the handmade flowers are three layers meaning that each layer will have 9 leaves.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Cut out a circle from the fabric as this will be the base to where you sew on all the leaves.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Sew the leaves on individually for the first layer. Sew them on close to the edge of the circle but sure to leave a couple of millimeters off the edge to help them be able to be sewed onto the pillow later. Continue you this for the first layer.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Before starting the second layer for the next 9 leaves, overlap the bottom to make the leaves stand up and then use a simple running stitch to keep them in place.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Sew these folded leaves onto the pillow and place them in the gaps from the first layer. Make sure they are secure and make them a bit closer to the center than the 1st layer of leaves. Repeat this for the next layer.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Once again as in step 3 sew these leaves on without folding them. Make these even closer to the centre to give the idea of layers.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Using a small bead sew it into the centre of the leaf. (Look under techniques, beading to see how to bead)
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Sew on 5 medium size beads around the small beads to give the idea of the centre of the flower with pollen.


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__**<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Ladder Stitch **__ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">A ladder stitch is great to sew close a hole after stuffing it, especially for a pillow. After sewing it if you pull the thread it will actually not be able to see your stitching which means that it looks like you did it on the machine.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Steps: **

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__**<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Beading **__

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Beading is great to give style to a pillow. It can make a pillow look beautiful very easily and it is a very simple technique. Beading can make a pillow stand out and emphasis words and pictures.


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__**<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Corner Seam **__ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">These types of seams are great when making a pillow having to sew at a 90 degress angles.

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Steps: **
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">With pins join the pieces of fabric together by placing the pins 1.5cm from the edge on two perpendicular edges.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Sew the two pieces of fabric together, starting and then reversing 3 stitches.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Continue to sew first edge and finish 1.5cm from the edge keeping the needle still in the fabric.
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Raise the presser foot and perform a 90 digress turn with the fabric and then put the presser foot back down.
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">With the hand wheel sew one stitch leaving the needle still in the fabric and then raise the presser foot and perform another 90 turn so the presser foot is straight. Put down the presser foot.
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Sew along the final side reversing 3 stitches at the end.
 * 7) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">Remove loose threads and then remove the bulk by cutting the corners extra fabric.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%;">These technique make up all the techniques on the pillow and this is more than what the design brief said but better having more than less. Also these are all individual techniques but still there is if you want to make this pillow again you can always remove some techniques if wanted.