It's been a while....

It's been a while since I last posted anything... well I have been busy doing some sewing... but mainly been busy doing my cross-stitch designing.

But here are some of my new stitching things that I've been making recently...when I find the time..!

The main body of this owl is from a vintage dress, which looks like it's from the 60's or 70's. It inspired me to make a very colourful owl in yellow, orange, purple and green.

























I also bought this old tea towel whilst on holiday in Wales a while back - it's made of lovely linen fabric and reminds me of some of the places I visited on my holiday. I love the style of the illustration and the colour palette is really nice :-)

 

Well eventually I got around to my plan of making it into a cushion cover! I made an 'envelope' style cover - you just fold it over to the size you want it to be and stitch up the sides - really easy :-)

Here's the 2 cushions together:

 

















I also started a patchwork bed cover, which just grew and grew.. now its large enough to cover a double bed :-) Again the colours were inspired by some vintage fabric that I bought which was had a turquoise background and yellow roses, (a bit 50's style, I thought..) The bright turquoise inspired me to make it in really strong colours, e.g. blues, purples and pinks etc...

 
Now I've just got to quilt it on the sewing machine and add a border, then it's finished, hooray!

It's the first 'proper' quilt I've made, so it's all a bit 'trial and error' - but hopefully I'll like it when its finished!