April 17, 2013 – 10:50 am
Well that’s my “Lovely Year of Finishes” project out of the way! I finished up the cushion for my MIL and although it’s a bit wonky (I didn’t unpick that seam and it wasn’t very square) I think she’ll like it. So here are the obligatory photos…
February 24, 2013 – 11:18 am
Last night and yesterday morning I did A LOT of sewing. It makes up for napping under four of my quilts for the middle part of the afternoon I think. Firstly I almost finished the applique job, but got bored so I moved on… I made this improvised patchwork cushion in the morning from some [...]
October 16, 2012 – 10:17 am
When you make a cushion, chances are you want an inner with a removable cover so it can be washed. Why spend a fiver on a cushion pad when you can make your own? This tutorial is pretty self explanatory, and can be adapted to different shapes and sizes. I’m going to give you details [...]
October 10, 2012 – 10:31 am
I’ve spent the last three days working on this cushion, sometimes paper piecing triangular sections for hours. I actually sewed and listened all the way through from Chris Evan’s Breakfast Show to the end of Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Monday whilst OH was sleeping as he’d just finished a night shift at 7am. Ken [...]
September 16, 2012 – 3:33 pm
Earlier in the year, a block party was started to make English Paper Pieced Rose Star blocks and make a quilt. I was inspired reading Lucy’s blog and decided to have a play myself but there’s no way I have the patience to make a whole quilt. So I made this cushion! I pieced it [...]
This is what I was working on on Friday morning whilst OH was sleeping off his night shift! I whipped it up throughout Zoe Ball’s radio programme- nice and simple and made from a few pieces of a Rooftop Garden charm pack I had been sitting on for a while. The back is some kind [...]
January 15, 2012 – 5:54 pm
I made this cushion for my sister as a belated Christmas present. It was going to be 7 rows of felt petals but my sewing machine was struggling to get in over the layers and I was feeling lazy, so I stuck with 3 and a blob in the middle. It’s not the neatest thing [...]
October 16, 2011 – 4:02 pm
I’ve had a bit of a stitchy fortnight, last weekend I completed my badger cushion and I LOVE it… It’s by Gail Lawther as part of the Enchanted Forest range of designs. You stitch it from the back and cut away the excess fabric, then sew bias tape over the joins (or in my case [...]
Title says it all really. I decided this morning to print off the instruction manual for my cheap Lidl sewing machine and learn what all the different feet did. I cut a piece of vintage curtain 18″ x 42″ and hemmed the two shortest edges, before folding 12″ from the edge right sides together and [...]
September 14, 2008 – 9:42 am
This fair was a bit more successful than my last, I took £81 and amongst others, I sold these! I also met Sam from Incy Wincy Stitches (http://www.incywincystitches.com/) who bought my starfish necklace (thanks!) and makes lovely buttons and other fabric-y bits and bobs like these: And continuing the spider theme, Tickly Spider (http://www.ticklyspider.co.uk/), [...]
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