ticking covered vintage feather cushion pad - fortuitously found at the Scout Jumble Sale the other week, two thrifted balls of cream Icelandic Lopi wool - a charity shop find last year for £1.00 a ball. Keep your fingers well and truly crossed that you've got enough yarn to make the cover big enough - barely just, but I managed to cram it all in!
Then add six gorgeous handpainted wooden buttons bought at last summer's Vintage and Handmade Textile Fair. (The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed there are actually seven buttons on here, not six. That's because stupid here made seven buttonholes instead of six - I had to add a vintage yellow one from the stash. Gah, I despair of myself sometimes, I really do!!)
And you end up with an uber-thick knitted cushion. Not really the weather for it at the moment but it'll look rather spiffy on the settee come next autumn.
I've linked this post to Apron Thrift Girl's Make Share.
Brilliant - a creative idea followed through to a pleasing end. Useful and beautiful.
Posted by: Mum | 04/19/2011 at 07:40 PM
Kind of scrumptious in a wintery kind of way. Love those buttons:-)
Posted by: Maureen | 04/20/2011 at 01:52 AM
That is really beautiful.
I so wish I could knit :0(
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