Just before Christmas I bought some of Karen's scrap packs and in keeping with Sarah's ethos of using up our scraps and me needing a new cushion for my bed, I set off.
Whoop! I love it AND I have managed to use up more scraps !
Sunday, 26 January 2014
The square circle
I have spent the whole weekend making this cushion: and it was totally worth it
Just before Christmas I bought some of Karen's scrap packs and in keeping with Sarah's ethos of using up our scraps and me needing a new cushion for my bed, I set off.
I knew HSTs would be the way to go to show off these fabrics and decided to go with Lynne's Lynne bob square pants. That block is 12" and I needed 26" so I knew I would be adding fabrics. I also knew I couldn't just do quick HSTs and chain piece them as I needed certain layouts - that took a long time to sort out....
This morning I tried lots of options for the rest of the cushion
And eventually settled with the light and dark grey. Then I decided to keep the block square but set the light grey on point, but this then made my cushion bigger than it needed to be, so I had to trim, leaving a gap in my triangle
Which gave this circular optical illusion, which I thought was just the way it was draping
But no - it looks just the same now and I couldn't have done that even if I had tried!! It's fabulous
I finished off with lots of straight line quilting
Just before Christmas I bought some of Karen's scrap packs and in keeping with Sarah's ethos of using up our scraps and me needing a new cushion for my bed, I set off.
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I love the pillow and that circle effect is really great. I have some of those fabrics too, I keep meaning to get them out to play with as they are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt looks amazing! I love scrap busting - it's like making stuff for free!
ReplyDeleteStunning!! Gorgeous scraps and what a fabulous 'mistake', such a cool affect!
ReplyDeletegood way to spend the weekend x AND use up some scraps x
ReplyDeleteYay! It looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteFab. I love the colours
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful cushion and the circle optical illusion is a rather clever trick. Di x
ReplyDeleteTotally amazing, and quite gorgeous! squaring that circle okay!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, beautiful and clever-bit like you. I see from IG that it has even got your daughter begging for cushions for her new place. Inspirational obviously!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea C! Well done on using up more of your scraps. Jxo
ReplyDeleteThe circle effect is amazing and made from scraps too. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I bought some of those scraps too, but I never actually open any of them, or of Lu's, or of the Umbrella ones, because apparently I just like to collect them o.O
ReplyDeleteI love it!!
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