Sometimes You Just Need a Reminder...

...of home.  While Morocco is clearly my home (it should be after 9 years), I can`t help feeling homesick for the sceptered isle from time to time. I nearly booked a ticket to go back for a week when my mum leaves on Saturday but in the end I didn`t. I made a cushion cover instead and saved the air ticket for a trip back over the holidays in December.

Union flag cushion in Amy Butler fabrics

Back in February, when I had only been blogging for a couple of weeks, I made this Union flag block using some lovely Amy Butler Love fabrics. Yes, yes I know.  It`s pink and green.  Quelle surprise!

At the time I wasn`t sure what I was going to do with it...I wasn`t sure whether to frame it and stick it on the wall or make it in to a cushion cover.  Today, a mere eight months later (did I ever mention I was indecisive?) it became the front of a cushion cover.

I straight line quilted it...

...and backed it in this zingy green fabric.  It is the twin of this Disappearing 9 Patch cushion.

A couple of Fridays ago, Julie at The Intrepid Thread was having a very silly 20 per cent off everything sale for 24 hours. To feed my fabric addiction, I ordered 11 fat quarters of Heirloom by Joel Dewberry in the sapphire colourway.   Today, the lovelies arrived.

Linking up with Sew Modern Monday - go on, hop on over and have a look at what creative people there are out there. Tsk. As if you didn`t know.

Enough is Enough

So today I finished the Union flag cushion cover front using the pink and green Rowan fabrics.  It measures 13"x13" and on the whole I'm pleased with how it's turned out.  I may put a border round it.  I may not. I do like the fact that it's not immediately obvious that's it's a flag design because the 3 fabrics used have such a similar colour palette.  It was a little fiddly though (for me) and I now know that I prefer larger and more gutsy pieces to work with.

Pastels Union flag block

Detail

Hmmm. I'm not entirely convinced that it will become a cushion cover.... I may just stick some glass over it and frame it! What I do know is that's it.  No more Union flag quilts, cushion covers, hangings....or anything - at least for the time being.  I'm moving on...