Les souris grises cushion cover {quilting}

As promised here is the little grey mice cushion that will be in the baby's room. So nothing fancy in terms of pattern, it is all made up of equilateral triangles pieced together in strips. 

The fabrics chosen is as follows:

- The little mice fabric is from Heather Ross,
- The other fabrics are the ones used for the Totally Groovy QAL - so it fits together. 

I quilted each little 'white' square and used the Aurifil I won for the blue and orange quilting. I had made a drawing before to see what I wanted to do. I think any quilting pattern would have looked bland however next to the colourful triangles. I only quilted in colours the top and bottom colour triangles lines. 

I have used for the first time some fusible wadding (Hobbs Heirloom). I hate when my fabric is bunching when I quilt. It did work, as in it was much easier to quilt and no bunching - and it was not like cardboard when finished - Result. However the top quilt kept un-sticking itself and I had to iron it again and again. I may need next time to bast it. It worked ok for this project because it is quite small but I intended to use the same wadding for the Totally Groovy QAL and that is a bit bigger. 

I went for simplicity in terms of the backing - yes I just wanted to finish it in the end, but also the top is so fussy I needed something more plain. I used some Echo from Lotta Jansdotter - in reference of some of the fabrics used at the front.  

So not the easiest project to do - but a great result for my first handling of triangles, at least I think.. This is the chair that will stay in the baby room, and it seems to work really well. 

Linking up to TGIFF today hosted by Better Off Thread.

What was happening in August?

How can it be August 31 already? August absolutely flew by and here we were at lunchtime discussing Christmas already. Anyway let's focus on August. During the month, I tried to keep tabs on who was talking about what - and getting some useful tips along the way. 

Pictures from here

For anyone sewing, Colette had this amazing tutorial on adding an invisible zipper. It is a video so you can see what you are supposed to do. Brilliant! 

For quilting, Pile O'Fabric explored the different options for basting (pins, spray, hand stitch!) - as part of the Beginners'Quilting 101 series. OK, it may be obvious for some of you, but I need a reminder - or a better way to do my basting -, and there may be other post in the series you may be interested in .. 


Did I mention Christmas? I reckon I will be looking at the Snowflake Block Tutorial by Mad Quilter's Disease. It looks amazing! It is in 3 parts so an easy tutorial to follow. 

For some car knitting, I will be copying Kessa in Stitches' version of the Burberry inspired cowl neck scarf, all with the 1x1 rib pattern. So simple and so intricate at the same time. 


For some bling bling in my life I will  look at this DIY Golden Lace Cuff from Runway. Lace, gold, DIY, yep, I am there. It is a June tutorial but I only found it so it totally counts for August.  


For blogging, I have found THE photography light reference library. This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your DSLR - which is probably going to come very handy with the darker days and less natural light.. Special mention to the video of the making of pictures for Outside feat Bear Grylls. Amazing. 

And finally what I am looking forward to is I heart Linen 'Mod Hexies' pattern. We know I love Rashida's fabric range, and this is an amazing quilt. She mentioned she may do a tutorial, so stay tune.

A special reference to Lucy @ Charm about you for her alternative use of Aurifil - the threading tutorial! Yes, this is THE tutorial that was retweeted by Alex of Aurifil (she in fact made me go 3 times to the Aurifil stand to discuss this with Alex, who was nowhere to be seen unfortunately!). There are loads of pictures guys so you cannot get it wrong... jsut to let you know though apparently it hurts, just saying. 

So here we are August has come and gone, what were your highlights of the month, which post did you bookmark? Which project did you take on as a result of a post? Don't be shy, share them with us in the comment box just below... 

Linking up to Lily's Quilts Small Blog Meet. Not exactly what I have done this month, but you have an idea of my inspiration at the moment!