Showing posts with label patchwork pillow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patchwork pillow. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

about a pillow, crochet and photography in the dark..

Is it really Tuesday already?!
I am missing a day here surely, you know that feeling when for an entire week you're living on the wrong day? Well that's me right now.

First as promised the other pillow- or cushion cover if you wish - I sewed up on Friday.


log cabin pillow


One big scrappy liberated log cabin, I love it! This type of log cabin block is still my very favourite to sew up. I pull tons of scraps from my bins and make a huge mess of the floor. I sew everything straight onto the batting,  and love the freedom to create as I go without a plan or design. Every piece of fabric I pull leads me to the next. If my strip is too short I'll just add another piece to it that will make it fit, and before I know it I'll have the top complete and quilted as well.
I have it listed in my shop here

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I've been doing some crochet on my lazy weekend and I'm almost done with a small 'ordinarily extraordinary blanket', using Dottie Angel's tutorial.
Now help me wish for a patch of clear sky so I can go outside to take pictures of it!



I have learned lots about taking better photo's from reading tips and tricks online. I can find my way around Picnick blindfolded now if I must.  But I still haven't mastered the art of taking half decent photo's when it rains outside and it's dark inside. Do you use the flash or not, I'd say not, but what to do for light? And I really don't want to have to go as far as building a home photography studio with special lights and whatnots! Do you have any tips and tricks you use during the dark months? Enlighten me ;-)

x Leila


Friday, 7 October 2011

Friday Favourites

Today was a typical autumn day with gusts of wind and plenty of rain.
Perfect sewing conditions!
I made two new cushion covers today, but I'm lazy and only edited the photo's of this one ;-) I am loving these earthy neutrals they're very serene don't you think?


patchwork pillow

This weekend I plan on staying cooped up inside with no obligations I'll sew if I feel like it but perhaps I'll be really bad and just veg out completely.
There's no place like home on cold and rainy days!

Friday Favourites

1. Yarn Project 2, 2. footrest, 3. Teeny Houses, 4. Finished!, 5. Home Sweet Home, 6. PP9 From my House to Yours potholder set, 7. Block for Bearpawandbearpaw, 8. Felted Slippers, 9. full frontal

What are your plans for the weekend?

x Leila