Om

 

One little . . . two little . . . three little yoga cushions . . . . twelve little yoga cushions sitting on a bed.

My latest project.  I have a customer who is starting a new yoga class and couldn't find the shape of yoga cushions she needed so a friend recommended me.

The outside pillow is made from 100% cotton duck.  You'd think with a name like that the fabric would love water.  Not knowing the manufacturer's recommendations when I started the project I did my usual prewash.  Imagine my surprise when I pulled the six yards of material from the washing machine to discover a very wrinkled mess.  A LOT of ironing later I managed to tame the crumpled chaos. 

I started the cutting process and lo and behold I was three cushions short.  What!  I re-did my math to make sure I asked for the right amount of material.  Was I quacking up?  The next step to solving the mystery was to measure the fabric.  There was only five and a quarter yards out of the six I had requested.  Boy, that fabric store is going to hear from me!

There was a deadline so I trotted off to my usual fabric store and told them my tale of woe and they were as surprised as I was.  This time I watched the fabric being cut so there was no mistaking how much I purchased.   The fabric went right into the washer when I got home.  

This time I wasn't surprised at the wrinkled mess.  I was hoping for less shrinkage but alas the same thing happened.  Plus, there was a two inch shrinkage in the width.

At least I learned a lesson about this kind of fabric.  Luckily I had another customer who didn't want her cotton duck washed (this was a bright pink polka dot) or I would have had egg on my face.

This is the side front view.  It has a handy-dandy handle that covers a zipper so when you want to wash the outside it's easy to take off.

There's an inside pillow that's filled with buckwheat hulls.  They come from a company in North Carolina called It's Lagniappe (that's a little something extra for good measure) that creates employment for folks with special needs.   http://www.buckwheathull.com/

The inner pillow is made from a sheet I bought at Habitat for Humanity - reduce, reuse, recycle!

Namaste!