All done #20 Curtain Fabric

All done #20 has been a long time coming but today I can say that I have finally finished all of my curtain fabric scraps from the curtains I made in 2014! The fabric is 100% silk so I have been very careful with it. It was reduced from £37.99 to £7.50 a metre in a closing down sale.

Also a new bag of second hand goodies arrived this week which complimented it perfectly. It is from my friend who had the vintage blanket that I fixed for her. She used to work in the very posh upholstery/interiors shop where I bought the original fabric. She has some stuff to move on as she is moving house and she wanted to say thank you for my crochet job.

There was an unusual collection of bits and pieces. Some wonderful cotton ticking, upholstery fabric, full cotton reels, wooden flower buttons and much more...

I decided to spruce up the sofa a little. One of our cushions had burst which was fraying and there is always a bit of a bun fight for the one remaining cushion on a Friday night when we all watch TV for an hour together. I found a rectangle blank cushion behind the sofa waiting for a crochet cover but I used it for this project instead.

After a scruffy play around with my free motion applique foot to 'doodle' around the petal pieces, I had my final design.

The peacock fabric was in the bag along with some thick wadding: maybe some kind of thermal curtain lining?? It made the cushion really sturdy and steadied the applique. There was a zip in the bag so I went mad and added that too. I always do a fold over so a zip felt like a bit of a treat.

The second one used nearly all of my curtain fabric left overs. I used up the last of the wadding with invisible thread to simply quilt the layers together. The linen piping was also in there; it was a like a lucky dip bag!