On a roll...

It seems that I have developed a fixation for cushion-making.  I've had these fabrics sitting patiently in my workroom for a couple of months now and knew exactly where I wanted them.

Then, suddenly, late this morning I had the urge to put it all into practice.  The cushions on the sofa are quite big so I decided to join some offcuts of batting to make a piece large enough rather than cutting into a bigger piece.  Using up the waste materials from other projects goes a long way to make me feel better about buying fabric all the time! 

Having pinned the pieces of batting to some muslin, I then used a wide zigzag stitch on my machine to join them together.

You can barely see the join and so I have marked this down as a complete success.

I wanted to try out some quilt-as-you-go projects and these seemed like a good size to give it a go.  I've been totally inspired by Andi's cushions and quilts over the last few months so I studied the photos in this post and got sewing.

I tried not to get too stressed about the straightness and widths of the quilting lines - I've read on other quilt blogs that this makes it organic.  I do organic!

Once I'd started, there was no stopping me.  My machine was flying!  Of course, it helped that I absolutely love this fabric line.

The machine quilting makes a wonderfully textured feel to the cloth and is quite different from my usual hand-quilting.

I completed the first one in a couple of hours and decided to harness the rhythm and make the second one too.

I even forgot to eat!  Now I have a relaxing bit of hand-sewing the bindings on in the morning and my sofa will be almost halfway to being revamped.

It's funny because I felt very out of sorts this morning and spent the first few hours of today in a dreamy state that I couldn't snap out of for a while.  But now I shall be going to bed feeling more than satisfied with my days work.