You know when you have a plan for the week? And then by the end of the weekend it’s already looking a bit shaky? Well that’s me this week, instead of quilting the Welsh Blanket Quilt I am looking after a poorly child and trying to keep on top of the washing.

But on the plus side I managed to find space to sneak in a bit of machine sewing and then some hand stitching to finish off a project.

This project was on my 4th quarter FAL list and finishing it was also my ALYoF goal for the month, left over from this project were some flowers: A couple of weeks ago while tidying up my sewing space I decided to get on and do something with them; adding another flower so that I could make a square cushion cover: I added a 2″ border and spent some time hand quilting around the flowers so yesterday it was ready for turning into a cushion cover.  I didn’t have any invisible zips so decided to add a zip in the middle of the back with a cover flap. I finished the cushion with a 2″ wide binding strip which results in a narrow binding which I really like.
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