All Things Soft
Now the nights are drawing in it’s time to start thinking of making your nests cosy and snug for the cold Winter months. What better way to do this than with soft home furnishings in bright colours, to remind you of the warmer months?
If you’re looking for seat pads for indoor furniture, it’s easy to make something for a specific chair shape. This chair seat is a tetrahedron with cut outs at each corner. The pad is made from a Greek cotton textile and is reversible, with the stripes running horizontally or vertically. Ties secure the pad to the chair seat.
Here I’ve used a set of handkerchiefs printed with the Black Goose pattern as the base for a set of cushions. Each cushion is slightly different in design (one has a handkerchief on the reverse as well), and they all have different coloured zips; black, white and red.
The Black Goose pattern was designed in 1936 by the textile artist E.Q. Nicholson.
It’s not just fabrics that can be used as the basis for soft furnishings. Here are two creations that use old pieces of embroidery as their base, over plain, red, hard-wearing material.
Here, a long strip of embroidery from Northern Greece creates the 3D height for a simple large square floor cushion.
While here, the asymmetrical shape of a remnant of embroidery from the Balkans creates an interesting contrast to a simple rectangular cushion.
And if you really want to go out on a limb, how about using old pieces of carpet as a patchwork to create a cushion cover? This cushion is made from remnants of an old kilim, a woven Turkish carpet.
