My plush light is named Venus, after the famous painting “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli.
Source: Wikipedia
The Venus plush light was designed as a decoration for the users favourite chair, bed, couch, etc. The cushion is two toned, beige on the back and ivory on the front. I hope that my design brings people excitement and happiness when they see it placed in their space.
The materials used to build the Venus plush light include satin fabric, stuffing, a battery pack, an LED light bulb and a ping pong ball to diffuse the light.
My design process began with creating my sewing pattern and watching lots of sewing tutorials on YouTube. I started with the pearl by cutting out 4 ovals and sewing those together with the sewing machine (pictured below). I then began working on the shell, I created the scalloped pattern and cut out the shape on two separate fabrics. Again with the sewing machine I sewed the two pieces together and then proceeded to stuff the pearl and the shell (but not fully stuff it, I will explain more in the next part).
(shoutout to Sophia for these amazing photos)
After I had the exterior shell shape I began by sewing down the shell to create the ridges. After wards I stuffed the rest of the shell and moved onto figuring out how I am going to attach my pearl, place my LED light and hide the wiring/battery pack.
As you can see in the pictures above I decided to make a small hole in the interior of the shell to feed the light through into the pearl.
Finally I used velcro to secure the pack in the bottom of the shell, which hides perfectly behind the pearl.
That’s it for this week! I had so much fun with this project and am looking forward to working more with the sewing machine in future projects.
P.S. this blog post does sound like everything went very smoothly but I did encounter some bumps along the way which I will discuss with you guys further tomorrow 🙂