Scrappy Happy Cushion

As promised.

A (mainly) picture post to share.

Scraps have been pieced and pressed, and a red gingham print selected for the cushion back and binding:

The finished product:

Quilted with straight lines, randomly spaced.

Happy :-)

Hope everyone has a happy week!

Pillow for Dad

Hullo hullo!

We had Father's Day a couple of weekends ago, so all of us (minus  Little Brother who is Away) got together to celebrate Dad.  

By coincidence it was also Nephew's 7th birthday, so we had a right party we did, hee! 

I wanted to give Dad something different this time, you know, other than the usual golf paraphernalia, books etc, so I hunkered down the day before and made this applique and patchwork pillow:

Now I'm usually very wary of applique as I'm absolutely useless at it, but for this pillow I had no such qualms because I know that Dad would not judge. Don't take my word for it, but what fun you will have when you throw caution to the wind!

My favorite bits are the Super Mario blocks. These are iron-ons - aren't they just adorable? They're Nephew's favorites too, so I thought I'd add them as a little surprise.

And a picture of the back:

I had another little iron on left, so I used this to make a label for the pillow on the back. Just before it was presented, we wrote our messages  on it with a waterproof pen.

Hope you like your pillow Dad, we love you - Muah!

P.S. If anyone's wondering, Nephew received a magnifying glass from his Auntie :-)

Still Seeing Squares

After a weekend of stippling:

More stippling:

And a little bit more stippling...

And some final measuring, backing and binding (in front of the telly).... 

Behold the fruits of our labour:

 Two oversized pillow covers for the oversized cushions in the living room.

Tried, tested, and given the seal of approval :-)

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

Clothes Scraps

Remember the bag of clothes scraps I got from my friend Jane?

Well, I've been busy making stuff with them. I figured early on that I was too lazy to do anything too fussy, so the result is that most of it went into making cushion and pillow covers.

Here are some finished:

The black flowery one on the right was a simple one made for another colleague Irene, and she also got a matching case for her fav (read 'smelly') pillow (smelly pillow not in the picture, thank goodness). The grey one on the left caused me a bit of grief, because the fabric was very flimsy, and I had chosen to make a quilted cushion case with it, silly me. In the end it didn't turn out too bad I suppose, but at that time I couldn't wait to get it over and done with :-( 
Not one of my faves I have to say, although Yummy Hubby likes it a lot - I guess it's a man's taste.

The next flowery blue one is my favourite so far:

I just looooove the ruffles! Thinking I'll be more making more like this from the larger scraps.

Now the next two are patched from smaller pieces of fabric. This fabric was also sort of gauzy, so I had to use interfacing and lining for the top. Surprisingly, it was very easy to work with and finish. The back of the covers were made from solid black fabric - also from Jane's scraps.

Not bad use from what would have been otherwise binned, don't you think?

Cushions

When I first started patchwork piecing, I made a lot of cushions and pillows. It was good practice for all those single blocks. I suppose you could say that cushions were my guinea pigs for quilts. The blue one was one of the first. The other picture is of some other ones I made.



Recently we moved offices at work, and had new furniture installed at the new office. The new chairs were so stiff, so a couple of my colleagues requested for cushions to ease their backs:-




I think you can say that Irene is very happy with her pillow (or is it with the prospect of cyberstardom?) and Mar is very shy.






Heheee...!