A little while ago, my good friend and enabler of my fabric addiction, Miss Cindy, asked me if I would put together a blogger bundle for her shop.
Ever since blogger bundles started appearing in fabric stores a few years ago, I was fascinated by the process of putting a bundle together. I've taken part in blogger bundle challenges, and, of course, I love putting together selections of fabric myself. I've never been hugely into buying bundles from one line of fabric (obviously there have been a couple of exceptions) because I much prefer to pick out fabrics myself. So this was a little bit of fabric heaven for me.
I browsed and I picked, and I tried out various combinations until I arrived at this
But you never know how its going to look till you see the fabric, really, do you? Screenshots aren't the real thing ;-)
Cindy sent me some lovely photos - I thought it looked great.
And then I got this lovely bundle in the post (cue more squealing)
I stroked that bundle quite a lot the first few days I had it in my possession. You know when you really, really fall in love with a bundle of fabric? This was it, but even better. This bundle is everything I love about modern fabric. Bright, vibrant saturated colours. A mix of different print scales. Delicate prints, big bold beautiful prints. A colour mix that is totally me.
From ever before I had the bundle in my hands, I had plans for it. My sofas are in need of a bunch of fresh new cushions. And I had the perfect pattern in my sights, this one by Little Miss Shabby for Sew, Mama, Sew!
Saturday morning, I got cutting. Then I got sewing. (Eventually, I tore myself away and fed the near-starving children, then banished them outside into the spring sunshine so I could sew in peace.) I finished piecing and basted it, then settled in beside the fire to hand quilt it.
I had done some playing with my perle cotton, and come up with these thread choices. The following evening, I did the back and sewed on the binding. (I even did a lovely zip insert and for the first time ever I think the back of my cushion looks great but I forgot to take a picture in the excitement and I'm too lazy to go do it now.) And I got this:
This was the proof in the pudding for me. I love how those fabrics play together.
I hope you like it too - you can buy the bundle here.
8 comments:
Oooh, beautiful selection there
It is TOO cute!
yes you certainly have put a nice selection together here and the cushion looks so good with these fabrics
Amazing you still have a voice left after all of that squealing :) I'm delighted that you like it - thank you so very much for the time and energy that went into creating it! xx
Beautiful work - I would be squealing too if someone sent me those fabrics!
Stunning bundle and cushion!!
Beautiful cushion cover. Love the quilting too!
Such beautiful fabrics - really love the pretty pillow you made too!
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