A Cushion

I was seized with the desire to make a cushion this weekend.  Recently we re-did our sitting room and I got a bit carried away with making everything co-ordinate in shades of yellow and grey, and having finished, I've decided it's a bit matchy, and some more random is called for.

I had a rootle through my home decor weight and linen scraps - most of which have come from scrap rolls - and put the following pile together.

It sewed up pretty quickly - I used big chunks because these fabrics fray so quickly, and just pieced them randomly.  My favourite kind of quilting if I'm honest.  For the back, I used the daisies and the guitars since they were the only bits left that were big enough, and this rather brilliant zip tutorial from Fiona at the Village Haberdashery.

(I'm not showing you the rest of the room just at the moment because it is A MIDDEN.)

 

Then I decided it was about time we got some cats on this blog.  So I took it upstairs to the bedroom where Deeley (the black one) and Marsha (the tortoiseshell one) are usually sleeping and tried to pose them nicely with it.

Marsha was having none of it.

Deeley, meanwhile, despite being black and usually quite hard to photograph, obligingly sat on the window side of the cushion and looked into the lens and everything.  She's good, is Deeley.  She eats carpets, but for the most part she's pretty good.

Ah, beautiful!  Well done Deeley.

...Marsha.  Go AWAY.