Each of the 12 hearts blocks (from the quilt I showed you last week) had a snowball block at it's centre, which left a set of four half square triangles each time.
Clearly I wasn't going to waste them! This is the cushion cover that I made with most of them.
Obviously the start point was pressing and trimming the blocks to the smallest one - turned out that 4" square was the measurement.
Then it was laying them out in a pleasing pattern, and chain piecing them, which is what is going on here.
Add a 'frankenwadding' (a piece of wadding made from left over scraps - in my case, usually the edges left after trimming a quilt before binding it), a backing and some quilting, and the cushion front is complete!
I added an envelope / overlap back to it, and then it was complete, just needing the cushion inner to complete it.
Compare this photo to the one at the top - you can see why its a good idea to add narrow borders to anything that you make as a cushion front, as you rarely get to see the bits at the edges!
Finally, the remaining half square triangles were turned into pinwheels, and a mini runner came into being. Perfect for topping a cupboard and standing pot plants on?
Just a bit of fun!
I've put the remaining few scraps into my scrap drawers now. I can't understand how the drawers are, once again, full to bursting! I clearly need to get scrap quilting again with what I have there.
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