And the winner is....

 Using a very scientific and complicated method a winner has been selected to win the cushion.

A crocheted bowl is useful after all.

Small child pulled out the winning ticket.

Congratulations Shell! Your new cushion will be posted with haste :)

Blog Post 201; you can win this upcycled cushion!!

 I thought it would be nice to have a giveaway to celebrate 201 entries on my blog.

So this morning I made this cushion...

 ...which used to be a very large man's shirt.

 The great thing about upcycling a shirt is that the button band is a ready made opening for the back of your cushion.

Just needed a little bit of applique made from fabric scraps and buttons.

Would you like to have this very cute cushion all for your very own? 

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post before Saturday 17th September.

I will put all of the names into a hat and draw out the winner :)

Happy commenting!

Patchwork bedspread - a big ta-dah for my 200th post!

 It's the biggest thing I've ever made, and I am very pleased with myself.

I bought the fabric on ebay - 4 metres of flowery polycotton at £3.50 a metre. (From this shop if you're interested.)

I cut each metre into 16 pieces and ironed them into lovely 24cm square pieces.

(That took a long time...)

Patchwork would usually be much smaller squares but I was being completely realistic about both my sewing skills and my concentration span.

Highly detailed plan ;)

After much sewing I eventually had a very large square made up of 64 flowery squares.

There is a slight mistake in the pattern, but there are no prizes for finding where it is. (And while we're on the subject of imperfections we aren't mentioning any slightly wonky bits in this project, thank you.)

Wadded with polyester and backed with a king size flat sheet.

And here it is on my bed; it is making me very happy!

And it's also Handmade Thursday; more of that at White Lily Green.

Handmade Thursday - crochet bowl

 The urge to crochet came upon me this morning.

So I dug out half a ball of wool and a hook and started making a hat.

But alas, half a ball only made a very small hat.

It does make a rather fetching bowl though.

(I'm envisaging it holding foil wrapped Christmas sweeties.)

More handmade Thursdays here.

Applique card

Yesterday a new family moved in next door.

Perfect excuse to make a little applique card out of that endless supply of fabric scraps.

Another bed cushion...

... my husband is complaining there's no room for him on the bed!

This is my first proper attempt at patchwork. I'd like to say it was done by hand, but the reality is that I am far too idle to spend a zillion hours handsewing teeny stitches.

I read my sewing machine manual, and lo and behold! A patchwork setting :)

It's still pretty labour intensive though - alot of cutting, ironing, pinning not to mention sewing.

I like that it is made from leftovers though, very frugal! I would love to make a bedspread, but I'm not good at big projects which require ongoing commitment. 

(And my husband might demand separate bedrooms if the marital bed gets any more flowery!!)

For Funky, Coco and Licken

This morning we found that a fox had killed our three chickens.

Now scratching about in Chicken Heaven xxx