I made a thing. It’s in a chunky velvet yarn that I bought when I spotted it in B&M sometime in 2022. You can try searching the craft section on B&M but when I tried it today, they didn’t have any yarn listed at all – I’m glad I snapped up when I saw it.
Roll forward to this year, and I felt like a very undemanding project so started work on a throw using rows of basic stitches worked as three rows of the same. As I got into it, I realised that I hadn’t made a birthday present for my friend so I quickly put together this cushion based on the same idea, like this:
- Create a chain that’s a bit less than the width of the planned cushion
- Go back along the chain working double crochet into it
- Now go back along the chain again, working double crochets into the back loops of the chain. That’s your first round
- Keep working in rounds. I did three rounds of double, then three rounds of treble until the cover was the same height as my cushion pad
- I finished with a round of double, inserted the cushion pad and jiggled it about a bit to sit nicely in the corners, then used a long length of yarn to whipstitch at the top.
It took about two and a half 100g balls of velvet yarn.
My friend was very happy with it. It’s a soft and squishy cushion that was nice to give in January.
Bernat seems to do a similar velvet yarn – Bernat Velvet available at Wool Warehouse – which comes in 300g balls that might be enough for one cushion.
Getting to balance 