Tuesday 24 January 2012

Charity Shop Bargain!



It was the huge sum of £8.

I am going to rub it down and paint it high gloss white.

It will then be in the bedroom for somewhere to put my work clothes ready for the next day.

I have been looking for months to get this style of chair and I can't believe my luck.

I have added it into the future plans in the Big Book of Flat!!!!

Sunday 8 January 2012

Patchwork Project 2 - The Big One

Well, I was encouraged by my smaller prototype patchwork so decided to do a second project.

I decided to go big.  Really big.  I have not worked out the logistics yet, but I know that I will come up with a cunning plan!

So, the project is to cover a leather 2 seater, as modelled here by Scooter, see his smiling face.


I gathered 320 5inch pre-cut squares from a lovely little shop on eBay.



Which I then sorted into background colour.



Then I made a colour plan.  I put the squares together to make sure the colours ran right.

It was too big for any room in my flat, so I laid out the squares with a lot of overlapping.




Then I labelled then and pinned them in rows.

It will measure 16 squares by 20 squares.



What have I started?  I think it will be made in two!

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Patchwork Quilting

I have an old retro style chair that has a dark brown fleece over it.

This is mainly due to the chair being light and the cats being very black.

I decided to liven things up with a festive project of a patchwork quilt.


So I bought some pre cut squares and laid them all out on the bed as I knew it would fit! I did some jiggling about to get the colours just right.


I then numbered the rows and set about sewing and joing it all together.  It took a few days of stopping and starting but it was very theraputic!!


I finished it all off with an edge that I now regret.  I think that it really spoils the look of the quilt, so I am going to undo that edge and just patchwork to the edge.

I wanted to have a quick go as I want to make a huge quilt to go over my dark brown leatehr 2 seater and liven the room up with some bright colours.

I shall start unpicking this on at the weekend and get it how I want it and then start on the beast.