ottoman empire

What do you do when some pieces of furniture start looking a bit tired? or when the new paint scheme doesn't quite work with some bits? don't throw out - re-cover!!

I've had a fun day today recovering my square ottomans. 

Previously cherry red microsuede, now a variety of funky black-and-white newsprint and comic- style prints.

Each face is a different fabric, some are pieced to make use of every scrap. These two below are from Spoonflower. Oh my gosh - what a resource that is!! I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for so I created the fabric above using a Lichtenstein pop-art print image and Spoonflower printed me a fat quarter. From the idea in my head to having the fabric in my hot little hand was under 10 days, totally fabulous. Otherwise you can purchase other designers' fabrics (as I did with the Typomatic fabric below)

Still have one to finish but I need more fabric...

This magnificent fellow is a King Parrot. He(the boys have red heads) is about 16" long. Each morning he'll visit my mum because she feeds him sunflower seeds. He's now so tame he'll nibble out of her hand sometimes.

Misearble rainy cold day in Sydney today so perfect for sewing.
Back to quilting the tumbler top...another beautiful antique scrappy quilt top arrived this week but its too wet to take outside to photograph...more soon
xo
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