Cathedral Window cushion

 Ta-Dah!!!

I've finished my cushion

and i love love love it.

I finished sewing the buttons on while watching 

TV last night, 

i think they finish it off nicely and also hide

the slightly scuwiff  joins in a few places.

I have used Tilda Fabric 

The All that is spring collection.

I love the muted tones, they are right up my street.

The buttons are also from the Tilda range.

 For the back i have used some gorgeous taupe

Clarke and Clarke spot and i actually

fitted a zip for the first time

WHOOOO!

I've always chickened out before and gone for an

envelope fold for the backs of my cushions.

I must confess i did have to unpick one side and resew it, as i did go

a little bit wonky.

It wasn't as tricky as i thought it would be,

thank god for YouTube

.

It now has pride of place on my bed.

Hubby doesn't understand why we have extra cushions

on the bed, i just tut at him an say

"because it looks pretty."

Fellas

 they have no idea!

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Crochet cushion Ta Dah!

Hi all on the gorgeous bank holiday Monday,

The sun is shining here and we have

a BBQ planned for tea time

(so pleeeze stay Mr sun).

Now the weather is better out came my

outdoor sofa and i wanted to make a crochet cushion

to match the cushions i made last year out of some

gorgeous Clarke and Clarke material i had stashed.

I had a bit of a change and made a ruffle trim 

around the cushion.

I bought some vintage buttons, they are all the same size

but different, i love them.

All the yarn came from my stash, bits of wool left over

from other projects.

The cream is Drops Lima the same wool as my recent pink 

cushion it's so nice to used and a very reasonable price.

Although i think it's looking a bit lonely LoL, so yes

number 2 in under way.

This sofa is the best thing we bought for outside, it's so

comfy, it's like having another room.

I spent a lot of time on it last year and also this year.

Morning brew, lunch, afternoon brew, crocheting.

It,s shaded in the morning and then gets the 

afternoon, evening sun.

I love it!!

Here are a couple of garden pic's the 

Lapins were full of bees, so i went to get my

camera to take some pic's and there was only one left when i got back.

I love these white foxgloves they are one of my

favourite flowers.

I don't seed them myself i let nature take its course 

and i have a lovely display every year.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I'm off to have my Lunch outside.

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Vintage flower crochet cushion Ta-Dah.

Hi all long time no see, i know it's been a few

weeks since i last dropped by but the garden beckons.

I so needed to get it sorted,  my 

Potatoes wouldn't wait any longer

and the veggi patch was in need of a serious

weeding.

Anyway it's all done and planted 

phew!!

When i haven't been gardening i pushed on with my

Vintage flower cushion and here it is

Ta-Dah!!

I just love it.

The pattern is lovely, i did try it with

different colours as well but i do think it

looks best all in one colour.

If you fancy having a go you can find the tutorial

here.

The buttons are some 10mm mother of pearl

i bought off eBay i just manage to scrape

these seven together. I didn't have 

enough pink ones (need to buy more) but i like the 

variations in the colours they all work.

Right i'm off into the garden again while it's

sunny, going by the weather report 

this morning it looks like rain here for the rest of this week.

My potatoes will love it anyway.

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Crochet cushion Ta-dah

                                                       Ta-dah!

Finished my cushion it looks really well I am so pleased with the colours, the best bit is it used

up leftover DK yarn from other projects, the cream was all I had to buy so I went for

Debbie Bliss cashmerino DK it's so soft and fab to use. I bought 3 balls but only needed 2.

The cushion came out at 14x14  and I decided to button up one end instead of completely 

closing it.

ooh it's fab the buttons finish it off nicely.

My local yarn shop has a fab range of buttons, they have a fab range of everything, it's 

leathal when I'm in there all you can here from me is 

ooh! and ahh!

I also spotted these

Knit pro hooks with soft grip handles but it's the colours that attracted me first

Aren't they delish?

and the case is pink   yeah!!   that was that I had to have them, 

I haven't road tested them yet

I didn't want to change hooks half way through a project

but I'll let you know what I think when I have.

The sampler blanket took a back seat this week so I best get back to that.

Xxxxxxxx