Wednesday, June 1, 2011

My creative space: home improvements

I've been busying myself with little projects, mainly for our ever changing/ constant building site of a house. Nope, I am not talking about the last pair of patchwork woolen curtains, although you'd think by now they would be hanging where they should. But I did make two things that were not on my to do list (I must be scared of running out of things to do!): Some chair cushions and a wine bag.

The chair cushions were a bit of an emergency, since Josh was threatening to get rid of our mismatched wooden chairs and get a set of matching ones. I personally really like and see a lot of potential in them. I like mismatched things in general, and I always thought repainting our chairs with various colors of our (my) choice would be great. So I started by making these little pillows to remedy to Josh's main complaint i.e. they're not comfortable. Well, they are slightly more now. I used some coffee bags I'd bought a while ago in Wellington that were just waiting for the perfect project. The inside is made of two layers of cut up duvet (I've been hoarding them).


And then... I had also been wanting to make more fabric buckets, this time with a flour sack I had an the same coffee sacks. well, it didn't exactly turn out as I imagined, but still usable. As a wine bag. Because we very often carry our wine around when we're out for a walk me and the kids. Seriously I'm sure I'll get to use it eventually, it'll be a good excuse to bring some wine next time we're invited over for dinner. Or maybe I can put our thermos in it next time we go camping.

I also (geez I've been busy!) made a new duvet cover using two flowery cotton sheets found at the op shop. They were originally single sheets, the length was no problem but they were obviously going to be short width wise for our queen size duvet. Luckily that same day in the same shop I also found a pale green double sheet that matched them perfectly. As you can tell by the photo, the cover ended up too wide. I'm not sure how I managed to get it wrong since a queen size duvet is basically a square, but luckily it's an easy fix.



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16 comments:

  1. You have been busy! The pattern on those coffee bags is awesome. What great seat covers!

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  2. Oh love your chair cushions!! Hope everyone is now happy with such cute places to sit!

    Jill @ Creating my way to Success
    http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/

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  3. Great seat covers and even more fabulous that the fabric used came from another purpose. The wine bag is really neat too. I need something like that to cart my lunch flask into work.

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  4. busy busy!
    i LOVE those chair cushions! what a great idea!

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  5. Excellent chair cushions - absolutely lovely! I'm a fan of mismatched too! You have been busy!

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  6. These seat cushions and the flour sack wine bag are fabulous. I love the look of the old print on these fabrics. Instant character.

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  7. Great use of the New Guinea bird coffee sacks. Or is a lizard. Whatever it is, good job.

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  8. Love your storage bins and I always seem to make my covers too big but i dont fix them I just end up tucking them in!
    Happy crafting :)

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  9. I love the idea of mismatched chairs too, so glad you found a way to keep them:) And while the chairs are mismatched the cushions bring them together - love it! Cyndy

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  10. I can't tell you how many times i tried to leave a comment on your blog today and blogger has been soooo naughty!!!!

    Finally, i think i have it working! Love love love your chair cushions :)

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  11. I like mismatched stuff too. The chair cushions look lovely!

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  12. LOVE THE CHAIRS! Such a great idea, I love mismatched things too! :)

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  13. wow, these cushions look great! hmm, I saw that pile of bags behind the house the other day...

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  14. Wow, thanks for all the lovely comments! Sounds like the chair cushions are a winner! Wait til you see what else I plan on doing with coffee sacks...

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  15. Loooove coffee bags!! Thanks for auditioning for OMTWI!!

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