I finished my mother-in-law's Christmas cushion last week. She asked for one after I made one for her birthday (a New York Beauty, not cathedrals) and I've done it in the colours of her bedroom. I had totally forgotten how long it takes to iron those beginning units - the entire Hunger Games for 9 of them!
I'm really pleased how it has turned out - all sensible like and not quirky. Go me! My mil is not one for whimsy in homewares. I did the fab zip tutorial again and fluked the lining up of the top and bottom pieces. It hadn't even crossed my mind to try and match them up. It's a nice big 20 inch pad in it, too.
Thank you all for the entries in the giveaway! I've been a bit overwhelmed with the response but it's been lovely - although most of you regulars are missing! Not your thing? That's okay, they're not for everyone!
Beautiful! You do "sensible-like" very well ;-). Mil is getting a smashing pressie thisChristmas!
ReplyDeleteLOVE your cushion. The colours are cheery too.
ReplyDeleteI didn't enter your giveaway because I'd never get them up on the walls. I have a tonne of pictures either waiting to go up or in need of framing and it's been years. If only it was as simple as hammering a picture hook in at my place.
I'm just about to lose my sewing space to a nursery, so I figured as I had nowhere to put them, I had best not enter! :o)
ReplyDeleteGreat make for the MIL! They are so time consuming but worth it :) I entered, all the better for my chances;)
ReplyDeleteI love my cathedral windows cushion, but i won't ever be making another one!
ReplyDeleteI did a cathedral cushion once…emphasis on the ONCE. I don't know if I ever want to go through that again. Origami + iron burns + fiddly sewing = NO.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy the end result, though, and yours is absolutely fab.
Love the quilting you did on it, very grown up :oD
ReplyDeleteFab cushion, you will definitely be flavour of the month with the m-i-l :)
ReplyDeleteFab-u-lous! *channelling Craig revel horwood*
ReplyDeleteI'm here I'm here, my blog reading is a bit lower than usual- I'm actually doing work would you believe. I only entered the fabric giveaways anyway- and a couple of book ones ;) I love this cushion, go you for the stripy matching, it's fate!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness it's amazing, Lynz. You've outdone yourself.
ReplyDeleteIt is so pretty! Lucky mil.
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