see my pretty bed

A new bed quilt means new bedding, amiright? I have a habit of having big patchwork quilts folded in half across the bottom of my bed - they are rarely all the way up the bed and so you see the duvet underneath. It's just how I style them. With this in mind I made my Natural Blues quilt only 60 inches high (tall? deep?) so it just covers the foot of the bed. I bought a pretty new white duvet set and in lieu of matching pillow cases I went for cushion covers from fat quarters that were bought for, but ultimately rejected from, the quilt proper.

They are pretty, no? I love that bottom vintage print.

These bolster shapes work so nicely on a bed. I bought them years ago to match my original purple duvet (2008!) and keep making different covers for them.

Here's the new pillowcases - I hadn't realised when I bought them that they had grey piping! Perfect.

Winston Teddy and a nice shot of the seersucker duvet. You don't see the sleep creases! It's also piped in grey.

This quilt was deliberately imagined with lots of creams to warm the blues up a bit. I've always been aware that my window treatments are black and white and it's not a colour scheme that sits very easily with me. So I was trying to keep to not-crazy-wild with colour, since I am a subtle colour fan usually, but warm enough to not be stark.

Yes. That will do nicely, I think.

I finished a skirt yesterday!! So next time a fashion show will ensue. A fashion show with one outfit, likes. But fashion nonetheless...