A bit later posting this week in order to take some photos of the finished cushion.

I needed thirty-four stripes to get the right length. I chose the arrangement both with an eye to the distribution but mostly for how the finished cushion would look in use.
There are a lot of ends that I had made of a suitable length to sew in but I realised that all I had to do was tie them in pairs and trim to about an inch and they could be hidden inside.

The original cushion cover I had been using had been rectangular and, although it had accommodated the cylindrical cushion, this time I decided to open up the ends and make it the correct shape. As you can see I gathered the end to make it fit.
What I hadn’t realised, was just how many feathers had escaped through the cover of the cushion pad. They got everywhere.

I cleaned off most of the lose ones.

Here you can see a pile of some of the stray feathers and the cotton I removed from the end seams. I joined the ends of the strip you can see above by making another row of the pattern. I couldn’t see that there was a way to make the join invisible but that didn’t worry me as the join would be at the back.I then made made two circles for the ends. I decided to use two different colours, chosen from those I had most of.I crocheted the ends in place from the outside which means it will be a pain if I ever need to remove the cover but gives a neat finish.Here is the cushion as it will look on the settee when it is in use.A good project this is as the only sewing was to gather the ends of the inner cover. You may have gathered before that I am not fond of sewing as I am not very good at it.