Competition and Challenges

New challenge September

originally posted in craft along but it actually falls into challenge category:

re- invent an old item and using Christmas fabrics give it a facelift for Christmas , post before and after pics . We will aim for completion date 1st november

crafty nannie

This is my completed Christmas challenge my upgraded cushion. It was originally bought for me by my children many years ago to go with a red blanket I have. The problem I had with it was that it wouldn't keep it's shape it kept going more diagonal than square because the fleece fabric had stretched because it hadn't been interfaced when made.

I wanted to keep the colour so it still goes well with my red blanket but I've always thought they looked very Christmassy so I wanted to add a little more Christmas flavour to it. I left the same fabric on the back, but I added interfacing to it so it wouldn't stretch out of shape again, I made the patchwork effect with Christmas fabric and I added a zip so after Christmas I can change the cover for something less Christmassy.

The first picture is the original…

I've loved seeing all your inspiring summer makes, so many different ideas and I hope it inspired others. Don't forget that if the only place you posted your make was in the group you may like to post it on the forums as well as only site members that are in the group can see the posts here.