Friday, January 31, 2014

Hand embroidered cushion designs...





Just added to my Etsy shop are these hand-embroidered cushion designs that I've been working on for a couple of weeks now in between other bigger projects. The front one is my favourite with the two "lovebird" centred flowers plus I love the colour combination of aqua blue and grey. It looks quite at home on this chair too ;-)

 I've had a bundle of Kaffe Fassett prints in my stash for a while now waiting patiently for that perfect project to use them in.  Each print is so unique, colourful and bold, that I decided to just add some simple hand-quilting in a variety of colours using some Perle cotton threads to compliment the colours in the prints.

A simple wave pattern was added to this bold tropical flower print which I think is enough to add texture but not too much to take your eye away from the print. While the hand-quilting does take a little more time and effort it does give me something to do at nights while watching TV :-)

Each cushion has a handmade button and loop enclosure on the back using some of the featured print from the cushion fronts.
These cushions are now available for sale here in my Etsy shop

3 comments:

Kay said...

These are gorgeous. Kaffe Fassett has the most amazing prints. I really like the hand embroidery on the love birds cushion too.

Karen said...

Beautiful cushions Catherine. I like the blue/grey one too. The leaves and hand quilting look great. Those bold Kaffe fabrics are so bold and beautiful. Your hand quilting compliments them perfectly. Cushions are a great manageable size to work with aren't they.

Julie said...

Lovely cushions Catherine - I love Kaffe fabrics - he is so unafraid of colour (lots of it) and large prints.

What are you up to now the holidays are over?

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