Making Good Use: Pieces

Whilst still not exactly cool, the weather is just a tad better today. I know it must be a bit cooler as I've actually been inspired to do a tiny bit of crafting.

I've cut out some fabric strips to make another patchwork cushion, this time on a grander scale. My sister gave me a really large soft cushion for Christmas quite a few years ago. It's really comfortable and squishy and is just the thing to lean against whilst lounging on the settee. It's still in the original faux-cable knit cover but that darned cover has stretched and stretched over the years and the cushion pad inside keeps getting all lumpy and squashed. So this afternoon I took the pad out of the cover, cue an explosion of feathers (luckily I'd had the sense to do this in the garden), measured it and cut out what I hope are enough fabric strips for the front. I didn't have that many pieces which were actually long enough by themselves so some I've added different fabrics to to make it long enough and some, the really lovely prints, I've cut two pieces of the same fabric to make the strip. Sadly, there are no shirts available to make the back with buttons so I'll have to resort to an envelope back, and I'm hoping I've got some Amy Butler fabric which will be big enough. If it continues to cool down over the weekend - which the Met Office say it will - I may even get it sewn up in the next day or two.

Also in pieces today is my small Pyrex jug. It fell off the draining board and hit the tiled kitchen floor with the force of a small bomb. Hundreds of tiny bits of Pyrex glass went everywhere and I just know I'll be finding them in the most unexpected places for weeks to come. B*gger, that's the second small Pyrex jug I've bust since we've lived here.