My take on a pattern I found on dontlooknow.typepad.com. The colours match the curtain in Ruth's room - see the scrap.
It's done as raw edge applique and free hand stitching.I had not been machine quilting for a long time and the stitching was not too great to start with. However, I'm quite pleased by the result. Size is 43 cm square or approx 17".
145305Martine I love all the beautiful colors. You are so very creative. *
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by mops
27 Jul 2010
Thank you Lilian. My daughter just phoned me she had a look too and she loves it. I emailed the link to here - just could not wait till September when we hope to visit her again.
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38135Martine wat een mooi resultaat en zijn we zelf niet altijd de ergste critici op ons eigen werk? Een ander ziet waarschijnlijk niet eens dat het niet is zoals jij had gedacht.
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by mops
27 Jul 2010
Dank je. Het maken van nette, regelmatige steken vraagt om een goede coördinatie van bewegen van je werkstuk en intrappen van je 'gas'pedaal, en dat was weer even wennen!
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46919I really love this! Where did you find the pattern for the flowers, or is it your own.
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by mops
25 Jul 2010
The pattern is from www.dontlooknow.typepad.com. It was a free project some time ago. But it's very easy to make your own patterns: there are 3 simple flower shapes, a circle and a small leave. I arranged the shapes, pinned them and then drew the stems free hand and not having enough green in the right colour to applique those I used a small zigzag stitch over a full strand of embroidery floss. Then I ironed the shapes into place and zigzagged the lot.
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15982Martine I love this so much I went back to the website and put it in my sewing favorites. I want to try it one day soon. She used binding around her pillow also.
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by mops
25 Jul 2010
I know about the binding, but I'd used all my pink scraps and had no time to go out and buy new material. I love some of her other designs as well. Have you seen the own with all sorts of cars and lorries? So cute for a boy!
36693What a great cushion. And you did great with the color matching. What an excellent job.
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31366Martine, I LOVE this. It's beautiful...It looks almost like what I just finished embroidery, which I will post right now. :)Thanks for sharing. :)
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36693Martine, this is lovely - great job.
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by mops
23 Jul 2010
Thanks Shirlene, it was so nice to do something completely different for a change.
211079very nice playing with the colours!
It looks very light and fresh.
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by mops
23 Jul 2010
Thank you. I had a packet of 4x4 squares and was lucky enough to find a number of matching colours.
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70767This is so pretty, Good match to the curtains. Good job
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Beautiful job. you won't believe this but I have some of the fabric like her curtains. I bought at a yard sale. haven't made anything with it yet but plan to make curtains for my sewing room one day. The fabric is so cheerful and your cushion matches very well.
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by mops
23 Jul 2010
Thank you. My daughter bought the fabric in Brussels in a rather expensive shop. As I haven't got a selvedge I have no idea where the fabric was made. But it's lovely.
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