A gift for AC!

I'm Back!!!
That may have been completely ages since I last posted (6 months :O ooopppsss) but my excuse is im a 3rd Year Student! I had lots of work to do and no time to design any patchworks :(

Update since last posts then!
I have my own sewing machine now!! I was using my mums before but I suppose since I was making so many patchworks and it wasn't just a one time thing, my parents decided to invest in a small one for me!! :D
Personally I think its better than any others since its bright blue but that is only my humble opinion!!

I have made a couple of things on it so far and this post is about one of those!
This cushion cover (and yes, its another cushion cover) I designed and made for one of my friends here at Uni! She was sitting in my room one day and said she really liked one of the covers I have, 'I Honestly Cant Remember' so of course I told her I made it myself.... Cue amazement and her staring at me like I was a goddess (which of course I am but hey...).

Thus, because I'm such a nice person I said i'd make her one too if she wanted! She picked out the block/design but I had to go home and choose the colours, which is a whole different story entirely. Lets just say it took me about an hour and a half to decide on 3 colours that worked well together! Im starting to learn that you should plan the cushion design around fabrics that you've already put together, not the other way round!!

Either way, THIS is the result:

                                  

I'm pleased to say my friend loved it and apparently her mum was a bit jealous too!!

How awesome are these???

OMG! Work was getting on top of me in these past couple of weeks. I really need to set out a time every week where I just sit and do this! However, one good thing that came out of this work is this next post!!

These cushions look so amazing!! Designed to resemble stones, a big pile of them would a) be so much fun to fling yourself onto (see picture) and b) make the whole room look funky!!!

I only really found them because Im designing my building around the idea of the 5 senses, with 2 specific areas; play and relaxation. these cushions?? = epitome of relaxation!! You dont even need to have loads. As shown below, a couple works just as well, perhaps even better since you really can get the idea that they're stones! It'll suprise everyone!!

 

Fun thought: I read a fact recently that said in Ancient Egyptian times, their pillows were made out of stone. I dont think they'd seen these had they?? So much more comfortable :D

Design Time

Ooopppppsss I may have forgotten to post recently. But thats no matter, because here is one now! Yes, it is just a design, basically, me just playing around with my fabrics on photoshop.

This one stemmed from a couple of cushions that I saw on the internet one day, and thought that they'd make a really nice idea. I did change the colours that they had used, from white to black, and obviously I dont have the same patterened fabric that they do. Instead I decided to use one of my Egypt fabrics.

As you can see its a really bright fabric, again only of hieroglyphics but still :) I dont know whether I'll actually make it or not but still, its something to do.

I'll have to make up a couple more designs soon so keeep waiting :)

Vintage Fair anyone?

Well, I'm finally back online! The stupid internet here at uni decided to break last Wednesday and its taken until now to sort it. To be completely honest, we didn't think we would get internet until later today when the BT man came to sort it out. But hey, I have it now, I'm not going to knock it.

Now, i'm sure you all want to know what I've spent my week doing. Not much is the answer to that one! I did make on new design on the computer, but that's not what im talking about in this post.

Last Saturday, a Vintage Fair came to my University for the day.( Judy's Vintage Fair )Now me and my friend have wanted to go for the past 2 years so we saved the day and had a look round. Personally I was looking for a nice Rock-a-billy dress for dancing, but they didn't have any nice ones my size. Thank fully I did find another dress just before leaving so now I have a pretty polka-dot black and white dress!

That is what this article is properly about: POLKA DOT! Some of the stalls had bins with fabrics to buy so of course I had to have a look :) I found myself a nice sky blue fabric with white polka dots on:

Of course I have absolutely no clue as to what i'll use it for, but perhaps I can combine it with another of my polka dot fabrics:

...to make a very patterned cushion/quilt. Or maybe I should be slightly sensible and stick to patterned and plain?? (Personally I think that's boring!!!)

My Hoard :D

Well, since I can't actually show you any more properly done covers without digging out my hard drive from where ever I put it, imma show you a lovely little picture of how much fabric I have:

I know, may not be as much as other people, but its a lot for someone who has a tiny room: ME! (And yes, It is tightly packed in that bottom box) I had a clever thought of taking pictures of all my fabrics that are somehow patterned, so when I make a design on the computer, I can easily photo-shop the fabric in to make it look more realistic. To be honest, it'll come in pretty handy for me too hopefully. 

 I did intend to mock up a design tonight, but since its already 20 to 2 in the morning, I'm just gonna leave you with this and try to update tomorrow. I have nothing else to do, except buy pretty pretty printing paper! YAY The exciting life of a university student huh? 

Anyone else have a photo of the amount of their fabric (that they haven't used i'd like to point out still!) that they want to show??

Mix and Match

I may have managed to achieve putting this cushion I mentioned last off for even longer.... I completely forgot to finish it so now, its just the front of the cushion ready. And here it is:

This one, well I just had the purple from my present in I honestly cant remember and the green spotty I found. But then I needed the turquoise and that was my main problem. The design?? well id been to an open studio (a cambridge thing) for someone doing patchwork, and shed done some so I thought I might try something different. It worked, eventually, once id sorted out which fabric would go where :P

But no I really do think this'll look really good once its fully finished. I'll try do that at christmas – when im next home from uni. Because yes... im at uni now :O 

Be prepared for lots more design ideas.... ive got some in my head already so ill hopefully get them down soon enough :) Just settling in at the minute so bear with me!

I'm Baaaaaaaccckkk

Well hello everyone! Looks like I'm back from my holiday (trust me I didnt want to come back but there were all these things getting in the way of me staying. Things like Uni and family!! How inconsiderate??) But yes. I had an amazing time, got a couple of ideas for some cushions, maybe even a quilt if I can be bothered, but that'd have to wait till next summer!

Thanks to Helen for the Pyramid shaped cushion idea. If you can actually believe me, that particular idea didnt occur to me at all! I'd toyed with the idea of the 3 Giza pyramids on a square cushion, but got no further than that! The main idea that I have in my head at the minute is recreating something like this:

This is called a pylon; the entrance way to the temples, most of which are decorated with scenes showing the kings triumph or worship of the gods. The obelisk (im sure you all know what one of those are) well that would be easy to do as well.... a long, thin rectangle with a triangle on the top! I'll put up my design once i've actually got it down on paper. At the minute its all still in my head, floating round with all the other un-useful bits of information!

Sorry that there's no actual cushion cover here at the moment. I really should finish this one before I go to uni. I've already put it off for about 9 months!!! OOOOOPPSSSS :P