Cushions and Kittens

As I mentioned in a previous post, I don’t have as much time for ‘selfish’ sewing at the moment as my boyfriend and I are hoping to move house and need to dedicate our free time to sprucing up our current house. It’s very frustrating at times because I am longing to get stuck into making the skirts and tops from my Autumn sewing plan. But you have to prioritise I suppose.
Today I have a couple of cushions which I made for our living room recently. It’s ironic, because I hadn’t planned on sewing anything for the living room (the bedrooms need the most work), but when you accidentally put cream cushion covers in the wash with red ones you end up with new cushion covers to sew (unless salmon pink suits your decor)!!

These have been on our couch for about a week, so they are looking a little crumpled now – sorry about that!!!

I whipped these up one evening using a very simple envelope method. The buttons are just there for effect, they aren’t functional! The fabric is from Ikea and the buttons I got on Ebay.


And because I now share my home with two kittens, they were of course desperate to find out what I was doing…

Biscuit investigating the cushion (or the cup of coffee more likely – that’s not for kittens!!!)

And then settles down for a snooze. It’s amazing what different personalities these two sisters have. Biscuit is calm and subdued. Bean…is always up to mischief:

“Hello. What’s this little round thing..haven’s seen this before…”

Naughty Paw in the air…

POW!! Kitten attack! Oi – get off my new cushion!!!

…we have to keep our cushions turned with the buttons hidden when we go out for the day now!

Furry Sewing Assistants

As I mentioned on Monday, one of the reasons why I haven't been sewing so much is because my boyfriend and I just got two new additions to our family:

Meet Bean and Biscuit! I have been wanting a cat for so long so I am really really excited about these two little girls. We only got them last week so they are still rather shy, but they will relax into their new surroundings soon I'm sure.

 This is Biscuit - she is already very friendly and loves playing with string

And this is Bean - a little more shy but gets up to a lot of mischief!

They are staying in the living room at the moment but we will let them out to explore the rest of the house in about a weeks time.....who knows what mischief they will get up to in my sewing room!!!