I was going to give it to my sister in law for her birthday, I did the sewing and quilting pretty quickly, then had binding issues, I remember trying to finish it in the car on the way to Whitby on my wedding anniversary, which is 2 days before my SiL's birthday. Needless to say another gift was found but the cushion was gifted to her and my brother for Christmas that year.
I'd planned to make another one to go with it and by Christmas this second one was pieced and had fusible fleece attached and one single tiny line of quilting of quilting (why?!) but no more.
Last summer when I made my first FAL list I had this is a likely contender but no it sat like this for another six months.
Then I took it to Leeds MQG in January, I managed to find just enough Sketch in grey to take with me to make the backing and I'd already got the binding cut and ready to go. I even remembered I'd used Aurifil 2600 in 40wt for the first one so grabbed that too. I got the quilting done quickly and then got the envelope back cut, bound, attached to the front and the binding attached to the front too whilst in Leeds, and had time to move onto another project too.
Then the next day I sat at home and hand sewed the binding onto the back to match the first one and done.
That wasn't so hard was it?! It took 3 weeks to put a pillow form in it and another week to blog about it but still...
So one down nine to go. My list can be found here: 2015 Finish-Along Quarter 1
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I love the look of binding on a cushion - it is so much easier than battling with piping.
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