Spiral Cushion

Hello lovelies! How are you all doing? 

I'm doing very well thanks! I've been a tad busy over the past month and my work schedule has definitely been consuming my time. Even though I haven't found the time to write any blog posts, I made sure I still had some hooky time for myself.   

Remember back in March when I shared some of the new yarn that I had bought....

I've been playing around with this yummy cotton (Cottonell by Wolle Rödel) and have enjoyed working with the vibrant colours that I had purchased.

I've been working on a rather charming cushion pattern and decided to keep it very simple and only use a couple of colours from my colourful collection. 

I decided upon the bright pink and the luscious shade of lime, a combination that really contrasts with one another.

Once I had made a choice of yarn colour, I gathered my essential hooky tools and got to work on this fun project.

I started off with an adjustable loop and with half double crochets. I crocheted round and round in a continuous spiral.

Using a stitch marker to indicated the beginning and end of each round.

I crocheted until I had a circle just the right size to match the diameter of my 14inch round cushion.

Once my circle was big enough I fastened off and began to work on some contrasting spiral detailing. .

Doesn't the pink clash with the green in a rather splendid way!?

Round and round I went, following the spiralling holes of the half double crochets.

Once finished I had a rather psychedelic looking cover for my cushion. It was a little wrinkled...

But nothing a light steam wouldn't fix.

It looks a little 70's inspired!

I made two of these circles, both using green as the main colour and pink for the spiralling detail. Once finished, I had an identical top and bottom to my cushion cover.

I sandwiched my cushion between my crocheted spiralling circles and stitched the circles together with a simple single crochet.

Every now and then I would add a bead or two to the single crochets. Just to add a little extra flair to my cushion!

Once finished, I fastened off and was left with a very neat and Summery looking cushion that just oozed happiness!

Simple, but busy! The spiral effect is almost hypnotising!

This jolly cushion complements my turquoise chair wonderfully....

and is rather at home lying in the centre of my bed, looking as if it has always lived there!

This was a rather fun and simple project. I'm extremely happy with the results and am going to get busy making a few extra cushions with the other coloured yarn I have. 

I thought you may also like to have a go at making one, so I wrote up the pattern for you! You can find all details along with the pattern, by clicking on the link below or by following the pattern for "Spiral Cushion" on the flip down tutorials menu at the top of the page. 

I do hope you have fun making it!

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Hello Lovelies!

This week I've had the luxury of these lovely magazines sitting at home on my coffee table. I've picked them up time and time again and have been lapping up the inspiration and information they hold. 

I don't normally buy magazines as a lot of the reading I do comes from books or from the internet. However, last week when I was at the airport waiting for my return flight to Germany, I couldn't help but use up the last of the pounds I had in my wallet and buy myself a couple of English magazines. 

Naturally I picked crafting magazines and have since been enjoying the vibrant photographs and pictures each of the magazines include.

I chose Simply Crochet, Mollie Makes and Homemaker Magazine. All three magazines I adore!

Now there was a time when I used to subscribe to a particular magazine but after a while I did tend to get bored as the same material kept popping up from month to month but in a slightly altered format. I decided to give up my subscription and since then haven't read a crafting magazine in a while. 

I have to tell you, picking up these magazines, I was pleasantly surprised! The content of all three magazines was fantastic! Each one was so beautifully designed and packed full of things I'd love to either buy or try making someday, not to mention there were lots of interesting articles about designers and the work they create.

Simply crochet was the only magazine I bought that was strictly a crochet magazine. This issue had some really fun ideas from a crochet cricket set to summery shorts ideal for days out in the sun.

All three magazines came with free gifts and Simply Crochet magazine was giving away a set of materials and pattern to make a cute little dream catcher.

The packet contained everything you need to make the dream cacher, even the crochet hook!!

I'll definitely try making this and let you know how I get on.

Mollie Makes was one of my other choices of magazine! 

I'm a bit of a fan of this magazine! They always have some lovely ideas of things to try making, but above all I love the aesthetic of the magazine. It's very simple and has a rather homemade feeling to it. It just oozes craftiness!

Mollie Makes' free gift was a set of postcards full of DIY Summery fashion ideas.

They were also giving away a little pouch full of everything that is required to make a little floral fabric brooch. How NICE!!!

It contained some really pretty fabrics and also a rather cool vintage style button!

Finally the last magazine I picked was Homemaker magazine and I have to say this one is my personal favourite!

Like the other two magazines it is beautifully layed out and I love how vibrant all of the photographs are. 

Homemaker contains all sorts, interviews with designers, crochet projects, sewing and knitting ideas, basically anything crafty!!

Homemaker magazines' project was a rather fun little set of transfers to jazz up some plates and make them just that extra bit special.

Once again everything you need to complete your crafty session of plate decorating. I thought it was a rather jolly idea!

I'll be giving each of these projects a go and am definitely going to keep these magazines on my coffee table so I can grab them and flick through the pages whenever I need a dash of inspiration!

Happy Sunday!!!!

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