Remember the hops that I started making into pillows, way back in November? I finished one, for Sarah’s birthday, as she’d kindly harvested the hops for me from the skycarrots allotment. The rest have been sitting around almost finished, just waiting for the top of each pillow to be ladder-stitched together by hand.
Today, in a flurry of productivity, I’ve sewn them all together and wrapped them all up with labels styled for the INEXPLICABLE EMPORIUM. These prints aren’t particularly “steampunk”, but as I’m trying to recycle the remnants of my stash before I buy anything new, I decided to use them anyway.
You might recognise a few of these fabrics – some of them turned out to have been hanging around for rather a long time!
- Koi fabric from a circle skirt and corset that I made to wear to a friend’s wedding
- Sewing print left over from an ill-fated dress that I’ve never worn
- Psychedelic design was the lining for my Beatles jacket
- Sugar skulls from my favourite skirt!
- Flames from Lettice’s skirt
- Strawberries left over from a pair of BIG PANTS that went straight from my sewing machine to the charity shop
- Rainforest creatures from a dress I bought that turned out to be so badly made that the only thing I could do with it was chop it up.
The clover & ladybirds print is the only fabric that’s never had any other incarnation. I bought it back in the days when I was making lots of tote bags, but it turned out to be a little bit too thin. I have a little bit left over (along with most of the other fabrics) that I’ll be using to make some matching lavender bags. I have enough dried lavender to fill a hundred bags, so that should keep me busy for a little while!