Welcome to my living room sofa!
It’s a very comfy sofa, only a couple of years old and opens out to a very
comfortable double bed. But the soft furnishings are boring me now.
I like to change them in the summer and winter just to give a new feel to the
place.
Since I am at home a
lot due to health reasons I need every trick I can think of to keep from
getting bored with these particular four walls and everything contained in
them. This is my winter look although as you can see from the window
behind it’s no longer winter. Nature has done her spring thing with the
plants and trees but the weather doesn’t know what to do next. It’s been
cold, windy and rainy here a lot lately. I’ve even had to turn the heat
on at times and this is May. The sun comes out suddenly and
randomly (like now) and it’s playing hide and seek with us and then disappears
just as quickly. So I blame the weather for not being inspired to change
to the summer look. It’s also the fact that the summer look bored me last
year and I made a note to change things for this year. My preferred
colours are gold, greens (forest green to a mint/pistachio-ish tones) and rust
(terracotta to apricot-y tones.) I like to throw a bit of white in there
too in the summer. But I also like turquoise-y colours and grey
tones which I have in the bedroom along with the bits of pink (which the OH
dislikes but was able to sneak in here and there).
I have been working on
something recently or at least formulating a plan. It’s bits and pieces
are coming together slowly but surely.
I bought this yarn last
year on the Albert Cuypmarkt because I liked the colours and the feel of it and
because it’s mostly cotton. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it
but I thought it would become a garment of some sort. Now matter what ,it
was cheap ad pretty….. A few weeks ago I decided I needed to have new
coasters so used the yarn for this:
I whipped them all up in
one evening while watching tv.
At the same time I decided
to make a new throw for the sofa which also double as a wrap for going on the
balcony in chilly weather and something to feel snuggly with for naps on the
sofa in the warm weather. (No matter how hot it is I like to be covered
when I sleep.) I really wanted to work with the yarn again so decided to
use it for the sofa throw. Here it is in progress a week or so ago.
It’s twice the size now and
I figure that I’m about half-way through it at this point. I even had to
order more of this yarn. The shop I got it from no longer had it but I
found this
place online and gave them a try. I ordered on Monday early afternoon
and had it on Tuesday afternoon!
I have to note here that it
gave me a feeling of deep satisfaction to be able to complete the entire
transaction on a Dutch language website without needed a translator. Not
only have I mastered the Albert Heijn site I’m increasing my repertoire!
Now it’s on to the pillows,
arm covers, piano bench, etc.
I looked on my remnants
shelf and pulled out all of the fabrics and looked at the assortment.
Then I suddenly got the idea! Why not do some patchwork?! It was
something I used to do a lot of many years ago but gave it up when it was
difficult to find fabrics where I was living. I’ve got various
placemats and table cloths, runners, etc. out of these fabrics already and some
patchwork would pull them all together with all my favourite colours in use.
I wanted to round out the
assortment more so had to buy more fabrics. Since I have trouble getting
out and about it’s difficult to get all the things that I need. I rely a
lot on shopping online but some things (like fabric) just have to be bought in
person in order to really see it, feel it, smell it ( for cheap fabric print
finish ) . I did a spot of Googling and found a quilting
shop in Amsterdam and even better was that it was relatively easy to get to
with just a five minute walk to the tram and two minute walk from the
tram to the shop. The fabrics were all so beautiful and I almost
got side-tracked into considering two completely different colour schemes!
And now the plan is slowly
coming together. I haven’t been feeling the best lately so the progress
has had it’s starts and stops but I keep working on it even if it’s just a
couple of rounds of the throw per day. My next step is to press the
fabric in order to cut the squares out. Hopefully I’ll get around to that
this week.
What do you think ?
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