Hold on you your chair, my lovely readers, I finally started a project for my own home! If you've been reading my blog for some time, you probably noticed that I hardly make anything for myself. Plushka takes so much of my time and I enjoy it so much that, until today, my home doesn't look like someone creative lives here.
Wait, you might say, there must be something! Nop, besides a few things that my mum made, there is nothing that I created to decorate our home - the place where I spend most of my time, and that's the embarrassing truth.
This year, I've got an intention, not a resolution, intention to make things for my home. I read here and I quote: "Resolutions are hard on a person, they set us up for feeling like failures when life gets complicated or our goals shift. Intentions however can be fluid and transform with us as we move forward. They are reminders to hold close throughout the year as we aim ourselves towards the place we wish to go".
Doesn't it sounds great! I am totally on board with this and made a decision - no resolutions for me this year:)
There are a few changes that I am making in my life but let's go back to the new project first....
The idea of this project started before Christmas. If you click on that link, you will see all the fabrics I was going to use for my bed runner. I wanted to finish it then but was too busy to even think about it. Today, I felt suddenly inspired.
I cut out squares:
Using two Ikea coffee tables, I am now trying to create some kind of a pattern. I still need to play with them a bit more, move around so I can avoid the repeats.
I am loving the look, the only thing I am a bit worried about is sewing different thickness fabrics together - linen and Liberty. I am going to quilt the bed runner by hand too.
Do you think it might be tricky? Do you have any tips?
awesome! great job!!! what about the embroidery part? where will that go? also, if you're worried about liberty being too thin, maybe just interface it with light iron-on interfacing, might stabilise it a little bit :) i'm very proud of you finally starting it :) xx
ReplyDeleteLooks lovely! I haven't visited your blog in soooo long! :) Glad to see your beautiful crafts are still as amazing as ever! This colour combination is beautiful... I agree with Yana - the textures shouldn't be a problem but perhaps interface if you'd like it to feel the same thickness. I find that once the batting is added it is okay.
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