Next up in my series of scrappy scrumptiousness is this little jewel of Scandi goodness.
Fruit and flowers – what could be a healthier mix?
And the colour palette is one of my all-time favourites: turquoise, green, blue and purple.
Only a scraplet to work with, so I will be sure not to waste a single inch!
A new cushion is born!
I am very fond of this fabric, a lovely crisp furnishing cotton, previously unused and of 1960s vintage (I think).
This particular cushion is bound for Lu-Lou’s shop, but there is more of the same fresh fabric in my stash.
So if you have folksy fantasies you can fulfil them if you fancy!
I fell in love with the print.
It spoke to me from the rack of fusty-smelling garments.
It was in that nice, higgledy-piggledy junk – ahem – antique emporium on Lyme Regis prom.
Its a genuine 1960s shift dress.
A Lilian Quayle model.
It needs a little tlc, like most of the things I buy.
A stitch or two at the neck.
A small adjustment under the arms, to avoid the dreaded gape and consequent unwelcome bra-showing-ness.
But the fabric is soft from its many turns in the wash.
And it flatters.
I think it will be just perfect to wander about in, be-sandalled, when the summer finally gets going.
