My creative space....

In my creative space this week, I finally found time for those squares I cut for my bed runner. Well, as you can see on the picture, it tuned out to be something completely different - Ikea table cover! I've never made anything like this so you can see it's far from perfect but, although it still needs bias, I like the new look of our table! As we have 2 of them in our living room, I have another one to make and take all the mistakes into account. I will certainly make it a little bit bigger so it fits slightly better on the corners...

The other project, crochet blanket order, is taking me some time to finish but is very close to the finishing stage now. You can see the start of this blanket here and here. 

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Have a creative Thursday!

A project for my home, NY "resolution"

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?

  

first patchwork...

Yep, not the best of my creations. I think i need to do more reading and look at a few more tutorials.