Sunny Jim is the most wonderful smiling sunflower head you will ever see. The sewing kit to make Jim will provide all the British Wool Tweeds for his petals, head and face and also a cotton backing. We have stuffed our sunflower head a little to give him bulk and mounted him on a florists wire. If you decide not to mount him on the florists wire, you are basically left with a cushion. You could quite easily use him as a cushion or turn him into a 3D appliqué on another project. Originally Sunny Jim was made as a height chart, with a stalk and a terracotta plant pot! We have altered him nowadays to just the head as it made him a cheaper option and gave him more versatility but I have left the pattern unchanged so you still have the option to make him into a full height chart.
The tweeds we used in our kit are from the Abraham Moon Woollen Mill in Yorkshire. Using the British Wool Tweed to make your cushion will catapult your work from homemade to handmade; your friends will be so impressed by your handiwork.
Once you start quilting with wool and more especially doing wool appliqué you will be hooked! Our British Wool Tweed is predominantly from the Abraham Moon Mill in Yorkshire a heritage which we, at Quilting Antics, are very proud of. If you have come across the name Abraham Moon you will of course know that the word quality is woven into every inch of the fabric.
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