{"id":2657,"date":"2017-04-15T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2017-04-15T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T18:31:12","slug":"crazy-patchwork-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/crazy-patchwork-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Patchwork Cushion , completed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Crazy Patchwork Cushion\u2026 continued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years ago, and before being thrown out of my studio to make room for a sixteen year old, I made a crazy patchwork cushion for a group challenge from 1980&#8217;s scraps some of which were Laura Ashley fabrics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2KlJ95EZLt\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/crazy\/\">Crazy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/crazy\/embed\/#?secret=2KlJ95EZLt\" data-secret=\"2KlJ95EZLt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"Embedded WordPress Post\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2662\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy patchwork cushion\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4709-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">scraps left over from the 1980&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t happy with the way it was finished but as with many of my projects I ran out of time and completed it in a rush in order to submit it to my quilt group\u2019s annual challenge.<\/p>\n<p>So the plan was to deconstruct it, well take the back off. I\u2019d stitched it with a long stitch to make that easy. Put a zip in the back, instead of the envelope back that I\u2019d had to do as a quick temporary fix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898.jpg\" alt=\"crazy patchwork cushion\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4898-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I needed finish the white embroidery on the front, so that all the edges were finished in the same way.<br \/>\nFinally I top stitched round the edge, I do this a lot on cushions just to give definition to the edge and to make them fit the cushion pad better. I do like a plump cushion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2661\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_2752.jpg\" alt=\"crazy patchwork cushion\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_2752.jpg 534w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_2752-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_2752-150x225.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_2752-300x449.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 85vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cushion for a Windsor chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My\u00a0cushion was made particularly to go to work with me to pretty up my office, but just as it was being made we were told we would soon be moving to a new \u201cagile \u201c working environment where there would be 3 desks to 5 staff . The \u201cpersonalisation of work spaces\u201d would be frowned upon, or rather strictly forbidden. So my Crazy patchwork cushion will remain at home, and pretty up my new studio, on my Windsor chair with a view of the back garden.<\/p>\n<p>The crazy patchwork cushion will also be submitted to my group&#8217;s biennial exhibition later this month, so that&#8217;s two items&#8230; see my next blog post for the third item.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years ago, and before being thrown out of my studio to make room for a sixteen year old, I made a crazy patchwork cushion for a group challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1027,11,1021,1],"tags":[964,898,899,131,869,1028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}