Birthday presents and CAKE!

Quite recently it was my very good friend's birthday!
I love to handmake all gifts I give to people but the hard bit is generally not the making of the gift but thinking of what to make in the first place!

No two gifts should be the same...... well... not exactly the same :P

Anyway - so for my friend I decided to delve into the cushion side of life and managed to come up with some new ideas :)

I then got my brother to take some good 'in focus' pictures (since he always says my photos are rubbish... which they probably are...):







I also made her a very awesome cake (I got the idea from the martha stewart website!):

Cushion covers and a new walking foot!

I thought I'd take a small break from quilt making (before I begin the insane task of trying to decide what goes on each side) and make some cushion covers!

I saw them as a way to practice patchworking a bit and also to try out my new walking foot :) A walking foot (for those who don't know) is a clever little sewing machine foot which works with the usual feeding things on your machine to feed the material through from the top as well as the bottom! VERY useful as it means that your material layers stay lined up and you don't end up with a funny little bump of excess fabric...

Anyway - so here are my cushion covers:





I'm really pleased with how they turned out!

Now it's time to get on with my quilt...