Bean Bag - Updating

Made this pillow style bean bag to prop myself up while watching television in bed, against my metal bed's head board. I have turtle neck syndrome and very bad posture as it is, so need something big and suitable. It's comfortable to sit upright in bed and lie down to watch television. The bean bag measures 63X83 centimetres.

Why anyone would label my posture as confident is beyond me and I've seen myself in my CCTV camera; that's what happens when you're are surrounded by nasty, stupid and spiteful individuals. My colleagues especially bad at reading people of ethnicity and people of different backgrounds, but that obviously had something to do with my lousy neighbours.

How does one take a good photograph of one single bean bag?

Purchased this lovely navy polyester suedette from Fabricland and bag of polystyrene beads from Wilkinson's for £6.50, made my bean bag pillow shaped about the size of the plastic bag of which the polystyrene beads came in with an added extra two inches or so in length. They didn't quite have enough fabric in the shop, so have added a scrap of black suedette which was hanging around at home from other projects. The fabric is warm to the touch, but will not be to hot in summer and very quick drying.

So I have a strip of black suedette down one side of my cover, keeping the seams flat, I have cover stitched them down with two lines of stitching, this produces nice lines of stitching while binding the edge down at the same time. So just for those who said I was not self taught, what makes you think my college and university had one of these machines? My university tutors expected me to ask them for help threading an overlocker and seemed surprised when I did it myself. For those who don't know, overlockers are evil machines to re-thread from scratch.

On the other side of the seam; for washing reasons, have sewn in an 24"/61cm invisible zipper and seamed the ends as the zipper was not quite long enough and it was the longest found on EBay.

Inside part of internal zip, have not overlocked this down as the zip is always the first to break on any item of fashion or accessory.

Outside cover of invisible zipper

The cover is now finalised by seaming down both open sides and nicely overlocked inside. This suedette doesn't need overlocking as it doesn't fray, but makes it look nice inside and help keep the seams flat while in use.

Next the bean bag internals; the bean bag stocking net liner was from another bean bag which my mother doesn't use anymore, this was just knotted on either end, the beads were transferred to two other bags to top them up and its faux fur cover keeps my sewing chair warm.

Not recommended, I've seamed both ends and overlocked the bean stocking liner. Wasn't an easy job filling it. Looks like a sea slug!