tiny happy

I finished a project this week that has been waiting a long time for some attention. Searching through my blog archives, I see it was actually begun in 2012. (The niece for whom it was intended received something else for her birthday!)

I guess I was pretty confident about my running stitch enthusiasm, because in that post I mentioned I would like to make a full-size quilt in the same way. Probably just as well I never got started on that. 

I've taken the doll-quilt sized project and made it into a cushion for the sofa. It's backed in grey wool fabric. The front is made from the last piece of Heidi I printed onto cotton voile. I layered that with some wool batting, and more cotton, and used these beautiful threads to work lines of running stitches. I wouldn't call them sashiko, as they are intentionally imperfect. Some might say wonky. That's the way I like them.

I found the blue beads on etsy – this Belgian crafter made them. I love their weight and imperfect shape.