When we moved into our house six years ago our old lounge suite was both exhausted and the wrong shape to fit our new lounge. The chairs went to chair heaven and the settee to the kitchen for HRH…
However the footstool still had plenty of life in it – clearly we don’t have very heavy feet. It also fitted nicely into a corner of our new lounge – well, apart from the colour.
I planned to make a cover, but you know how it goes… Six years later the red footstool was still sitting in the corner and we’d been ignoring the colour clash for years. Then Harry arrived rather suddenly and boring plain throws were immediately cast over my beautiful Laura Ashley settees.
As I began to plot and scheme how to improve the look of the throw covered settees, my thoughts turned to the foot stall and, when I discovered some elephant Clarke and Clarke fabric, a plan emerged.
Making a footstool cover from this fabric would leave me with an unused long thin strip of fabric – not very economical. But if cut the strip into near squares four elephants long by three wide I could made a fake patchwork quilt with them for one of my very bland looking settees.
So that’s what I did: I made a simple footstool cover….
…and a rather less simple quilt….
….which incidentally won second prize at the produce show…
until next time.
Bekki x
Ooh I like the quilting pattern, that’s super pretty. Congrats on 2nd place ð
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Thank you ð
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Wow! Look at you getting all fancy with your quilting designs. is there no end to your successes at the Show?
I got a little tear in my eye when I say Mr. H. again, bless him. He’ll have found himself a comfy place over the rainbow bridge I’m sure. ð
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Ha ha! Actually that is the last thing I have to show you from the show.
Any excuse to post a pic of my dear Mr H. Yes, I’m sure he will ð
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Very smart! They turned out super cute too:)
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Thank you ð
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Genius and really lovely. Xx
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Aw! You’re so kind. ð
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So nice to see that pic of Mr Hicks. But I love the elephants in the room and the quilt is perfect for Harry snuggles.
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Thank you. It’s also a good colour to wipe a bit of mud on and it blend in ð
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Very creative with all that fabric and a prize winning quilt to boot! Love it! The pattern is so adorable.
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Thank you. I do love the elephants. Hubby suggested it was a bit like nursery fabric, but I ignored him ð
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Mr Hicks fan club lives on âĪ Every room should have an elephant or two – and an animal sleeping on the sofa ð
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So glad it does. I do seem to have a giraffe in every room and if I could get away with it there’d definitely be an animal on every sofa.
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Look at you winning prizes with your after thought crafts!!! Very nice. All of out furniture is covered with old sheets unless company is coming. Sigh.
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Ha ha! I didn’t think I even had anything to enter until I noticed that me elephants had flowers on them.
Time for you to make some sheet covering quilts methinks.
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Maybe… ðĪ glad you noticed your elephants had flowers!
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Mind I did quilt flowers on them, so actually it wouldn’t have mattered if they hadn’t. Sometimes those cogs in my head turn very very slowly. In fact so slow it was only yesterday I spotted a pair of socks that fitted the theme that I could have entered the knitting category, which would have had a much better shot!
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Lol sometimes it is hard to rethink the way things are. But next year, you will be better prepared to think creatively.
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Hopefully. Although I did mentally go through all my knitting projects looking for ones that did fit the theme! Although as it turns out obviously not all of them!
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Lol not all! But maybe next year it will be easier?
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The organise took so much stick, I think there may be no themes for the craft section next year. Although no theme still can leave me forgetting about things I’ve made!
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lol That’s what the blog is for, to remind you of everything. For knitting, I use Ravelry pretty carefully to document my makes, but even then, I am surprised when I look at what I have knit this year – I forget some of them, or think they were longer ago than that.
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I’ve completely given up tracking projects on Ravelry. Maybe if I had, I wouldn’t have forgotten the socks, Ironically though I do sell the pattern on ravely, so even not tracking projects I could have found it.
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Lol I do track all projects, otherwise I would have no idea what was going on. ð
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Ha! You’ve hit the nail on the head. Like I ever know what’s going on! ð
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Lol ðĪŠ
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Well done, for both winning a prize and giving the room a total new make over. I love the quilt idea, that is very grand. ð
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Thank you. Its just a shame I seem to make more quilts for dogs than elsewhere in the house ðĶ
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ð I am sure the dogs appreciate them just as much. I tend to make of blankets for Miekie too, a lot more than for the rest of the family, that is for sure.
Enjoy the new week and have a good one.
xx
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I hope so. Well they are always our babies, so I guess they need more quilts/blankets. xx
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very nice, I love it ð
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Thank you ð
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Hi, clever you with a 2nd prize as well, the elephants are so cute and what a surprise that result was for you. Mr H looks very comfy.
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Thank you. Yes, a definite surprise, there’s some much better sewists than me in our village.
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Love that pattern. I need a quilt like that to pull all my elephants together.
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Go for it! That fabric can still be bought on Ebay.
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Thank you!
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