WIPS (Work in Progress)

I haven't been posting on this blog as much as I should do.  I've been meaning to set up my Etsy shop but I need time to photograph all of what I want to sell and I want to finish what will be a new line of products to sell.

Over the years I have been a cross stitcher, a knitter, a sewer, a card maker, a scrapbooker and more recently a hooker (a person who crochets).  I am somebody who gets bored easily which is why I like small projects and so I don't usually make big items.  In my last post I talked about the progress of my African Flower Afghan but I am getting bored of making it as I've been making this since April.  So I've been experimenting with cushion covers made from crochet.

I've been buying magazines as I've like the free gifts of wool, crochet hooks and knitting needles.  I've been turning the free wool into cushion covers.  I've crocheted the squares but need to actually purchase the fabric to turn them into nice cushion covers which can be sold.

This cushion cover is just a simple granny square.  I need to sort out the wool ends and then turn it into a cushion.  My aim is that one side of the cushion will be crocheted and the back will be fabric and you will close them with buttons that will be funky and match the colours in the crochet.  I really liked the combination of colours in this pack.  I liked how the colours clashed and hope this will appeal to customers who will buy the cushion.

This is a shell crochet cushion cover made from a pattern in the first crochet magazine I bought.  I didn't use the wool from the magazine to make this cushion, this is made from the wool that came a few magazines later.  I like how with these colours work this pattern.  Again there are messy ends but once sewn together into the cushion cover it will look so much neater.  

This is the final cushion cover I've made.  I made this over the weekend,  The centre are 4 granny squares with 3 dimensional flowers.  I joined the squares together and then crocheted around the edges to make a square big enough to make a cushion cover from.  There wasn't enough pink wool to go completely around the edge and so the last round is two tone.  It would have looked much better if it was completely pink, but made the best with the amount of wool I had left.

If these were turned into cushions would you buy them?  Do you like to colour combinations?  Are the designs good but should the colour combinations be different?  Post your comments and let me know what you think.