CUTE VALENTINE CHALLENGE. I enlarged the design and stitched onto some thick linen fabric that I have using two shades of pink. I added the button which was one that came from my late mother. I feel tempted to make another with the same design using bl

Apologies this is sideways and unfinished. My sister in law has just retired as a head teacher and I decided it would be fun to make her a cushion with Retired on. She always chooses purple and this has lilac thread on. Sadly the colours don't show we

Another experiment. Same font as the Elizabeth cushion but this one is made with quite a thick and rough fabric. Again I am pleased with the result but will have to wait to tomorrow to buy a cushion pad. Thanks for looking

Silk cushion made as a gift for a friend. I have been having a fun time experimenting with fonts. The cushion is 16"x16" The thread I used for the name is very bright and the picture doesn't show the colours too well. Sorry I cant remember the font I

Cushion for a friend. It is a pale blue and I have used names that are in her life and made the name of where she has always lived in red. Cant remember the font its one I have recently added to my ever growing collection. Thanks for looking

In early April I handed over 7 cushions that a friend had asked me to make. Six matched and the seventh was of mountains hills and fields. Before my friend had seen cushion number 7 she asked me to make another of the sea for her daughter in law to be. T

A request cushion for a friend for her friend. Sounds complicated but its not. The brief was Rosemarie loves green and gardening and please have her name on the front. I am pleased with the result but being nit picky the name could be a bit nearer the

Cushion for Gabriel. My neighbour (not the one who is new who I made the tea towel for) is off to Canada on holiday. She asked me to make a present for Gabriel who she will be seeing while they are there. I was left to decide on what I was going to mak

Ring cushion for a colleague who is having a purple themed wedding at the weekend. The fabric is a faux cream silk with a slub and I embroidered a frame from Embroidery Library which I think I expanded a bit and then wrote in the gap. I bought the desig