Whilst I retain my kitten-weakness-like-demeanor, I’ve been doing simple sewing – just a little every few days.

The time has come when I really need to blog it.

I showed you one cushion the other day – here’s another :

I took a plain aubergine coloured velvet cushion.

I sewed some imitation gold Venetian lace to the edges of the cushion then bent it oven and down and secured it down around the tips of the arches.

I found a multi-layered sequin and bead star in my stash. Perfect! I knew I blew $3 or $4 on it for a good reason a couple of years back. I just needed to find the reason.

Each petal was edged with beaded wire and the bottom layer of petals were slightly convex, most of all towards the middle – they didn’t sit flat on the cushion. Two layers of petals.

Sewing it down around the edges would have been a nightmare (athough I think a curved needle might have helped if I had gone that way), but the thread would have pushed beads aside, creating gaps and showing wire. (I tried)

I decided to glue felt to the back of the star to even it out, so the whole back was raised to the level of the outline.

A bit more glue, and the star was glued to the cushion itself.

It’s meant as a display cushion. It looks a lot more sumptuous in real life than in the photo (and has cat hair!) If anyone tries to sit on it, I’ll have to whip in there and snatch it from under them. I’m not sure the stiffness of the star only secured by glue will take a bottom landing square on top of it!

I was going to bead, in seed beads the same colour as the seed beads used on the star – around the points of each arch, but I decided that life was too short.

I still have some boring clothes mending I need to do, a dress to finish decorating, (I have the decoration of two dresses to blog) and then onto a decision of whether I work on Mary C silk shading classes, or my own Sampler, before the TTUNI Golden Thread Masterclass starts at the end of April. Probably my sampler – and get just a couple of motifs done. I won’t have time to do all of Mary’s lessons and I don’t want to keep stopping and starting on that.

Every week – a little bit stronger! That’s what I’m hoping for!