These cushion covers are proper Kona - yet I find myself plumping them up every 5 minutes. When I see lovely cushions on people's blogs they never look like this - OK they may have been freshly plumped for the photo, but I wonder if they always look smooth and neat.
Perhaps the secret is in the density of quilting and/or the type of wadding (batting) used - I used some leftover polyester. The one on the left is not quilted at all, and that seems to get the worst of the crumples.
Oh, and an update on last week's tiny skinny log cabin - I made a second one and sandwiched the two together to make a key fob for our old shed.
The two liberty prints used here are Mitsi in pink and Jugendstil in grey. I think these folded log cabin blocks look best if you only use two fabrics. This is a great way to use up tiny liberty scraps.
Thanks to everyone who passed by last week and those who commented on my first ever blog post. Thanks also to Crazy Mom Quilts whose brilliant blog and weekly link-up helped me to get started with this blogging lark.
Liberty fabric will always top my list, but I could not resist these totally modern and graphic fabrics at Tikki London. Although this wonderful shop is only about 4 miles away from me, I had never visited before. I just had to put that right after reading this post about fabric stores in London on the Needles and Lemons blog.
The shop, in Kew (south west London) is quite small but I could not believe how much the owners have managed to get in there. Anything I could not see was produced as if by magic by the friendly staff. After about an hour I ended up with some fat quarters, a pattern for a bag and some threads. I will certainly be visiting Tikki again before too long.
Some of the fabrics are from the Architextures range by Carolyn Friedlander for Robert Kaufmann. I've seen a lot about this fabric online, but the fabrics look even better in real life.
As soon as I got this bundle home, Number One Son asked me to make a cover for his iPad mini with the Architextures fabrics. So I cut two 6.5 inch wide strips a bit longer than twice the length of the iPad to allow for a flap. Then I sandwiched them together with some lightweight polyester wadding (batting) which was leftover from another project.
My original plan was to quilt it with diagonal lines in orange but in the end I decided it might look too busy. So I left it unquilted and simply sewed up the edges. It is finished but still needs Velcro - I thought I had some somewhere but could not find it. Must get organised!
