How to Make a Punch Needle Rainbow Cushion

Trim a piece of fabric slightly larger than your tapestry frame, around 45cm x 45cm Stretch your fabric over the frame and secure with the clips.

Taking a marker pen, trace out your shape straight onto the fabric.

Choose your colour to start with, for the rainbow start with the pink first. Thread your punch needle using the instructions in the leaflet provided. Complete one full row following the design on the fabric.

Repeat this until you have 10 lines of pink stitching, making sure the lines are close together and the stitches are neat and consistent. Once you have finished with the pink trim the wool leaving about 10cm.

Complete step 4 until you have filled in the whole of your rainbow using different colours. Each colour has 10 rows of stitching. Using your wool needle thread all the ends through to the other side.

Turn your frame over and you will see all the loops that you have created. You might need to trim a few loops that are a little longer than others. Also you will need to trim the strands that you have just sewn through.

Once you are happy with your loops, cut a piece of fabric for the back of your cushion. The backing fabric needs to be about 30cm x 30cm. Pin the two right sides together.

Sew around the edges leaving a 1cm seam allowance. Leave a 10cm hole so you can turn your cushion the right side out and to be able to stuff.

Stuff your cushion to your desired firmness. Make sure you get stuffing in each of the corners.

Once you are happy with the stuffing sew up the 10cm hole using a needle and matching thread.

To add a little decoration add a pom pom to each corner of the cushion using the matching colours from the rainbow.