We're going on a bear hunt!

Well, actually, the title should be i've been on a bear hunt! Would you like to know why?

Because of these beautys!!:

The blocks are called Bear Paws!

These cushions were made for someone who had asked for 2 cushion covers to be made for a Christmas present to give to his Mother. Sadly, I couldn't make them for Christmas day, however I got them to him as soon as possible after the holidays were over!

I was only given 2 pictures of the room they would be used in to get colours and ideas from, and wasn't given sizes of cushions - basically I was given free reign to create what I wanted! The colours I chose were so easy to put together, it took me less than 10 minutes in the shop! I was amazed. I came out of it thinking 'I clearly need to have colours in mind before I go in more often!'

I really am particularly proud of these cushions as they are some of my best work piecing and seam wise! There were only a couple of minor mistakes (although, if you would ask my Dad he'd make them seem like World War 3 was about to start! I, in response, told him he needed to flush his head down the toilet if he couldn't see how good they were!)

Either way, I wanted to get permission to put them up here on the blog and as I now have it, I can share them with my lovely followers. I hope you like them!

The front is done!

Hi Guys,

To those who saw the last post, I'm making a throw for a friend of mine. The last post only showed 3/5 of the front, however I now have all 5 rows sewn together :D

I do need to put a white border around this and then also sew on the back, but that shouldn't take me too long once I have the fabric.
A trick of mine (and probably a lot of other people) to get cheap fabric is to buy bed sheets. Depending on where you get them from, you can get a king size sheet for about £6 compared to about £15 for 2.5m of fabric from a reasonable priced shop!
It's brilliant. However, I haven't found a good shop here in Swansea yet so I shall wait until I am back home for Easter to finish the project and pass it on! 

Here are the pictures:

3/5 of the way through!

Anyone who saw my last post, well here are the first 6 rows sewn!

It's gone really easily, and is really fun to do since i'm not having to worry about matching up the fabrics! Its like a blessing in disguise. I thought I wouldn't be finished much before the Easter holidays, but clearly I was wrong. The only problems I'm going to have are the border, the back and getting it to my friend.

I had a helper as well. I was sewing while someone else did the ironing of the seams. We had a nice little team going on and everything was going very quickly! Once there was nothing more to iron I got him to match the squares for the next rows! It was brilliant.

Either way, I hope this picture does it justice!

A pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow!

And this is my next project!

A friend of mine wants a throw for her bed, and not being able to find one as awesome as mine is going to be, she asked whether i'd make her one! Technically she is commissioning me to do this, which is so very exciting :D

I provided a couple of different rainbow ideas, keeping it simple since rainbows make everything funky without the need for lots of intricate patchwork patterns. The one above is the one that she liked most, and as such, is the one that she will get.
Each square is going to be 14cm x 14cm with a border of 5cm each side. This will take the entire throw to a size of 150 x 150cm.

I've already got most of the patches cut out (eager beaver that I am), I just need to cut out both blues and the purple. I decided to use a couple of fabrics for each colour, to give the throw some variation so I hope it all looks good!

This is my second commissioned piece so i'm very excited to do this :D It's always better to have an idea of what to work towards at the end, and also to have someone to give it to, rather than it being sat in my room for months on end!