Cushion Update

Well I know that this isn't quite the big reveal that I had promised but I thought that I would instead show you a bit more of the progress that I'm making with the cushion. I guess it also shows you just what I've been up to lately!

Well, I've had a good couple of days to work on the cushion which has been lovely and as you can see,  there's been quite development from the last photos I showed you. 

Yep! All the squares have now been created and stitched together, yay! 

But hang on a minute?! What is that rogue little light blue patch doing in the middle there? Well yes, I thought you would notice that! Slight hiccup there. I literally got to the last patch and found that I had no more dark blue for the border. After some much hopeful rummaging in the box to see if there wasn't any scraps that would save me, I resigned myself to that fact that I would have do adjust my pattern.

By the way, just incase you were thinking it, I couldn't buy a new ball as it wasn't available in the shops anymore and the closest I could find was to me, not good enough. Besides, I was quite open with the idea of creatively getting round the idea then and there! 

I decided that I would redo the middle patch in a lighter blue. Easy to say but as it was all sewn up, it was a bit of a problem getting there and a few times, I cut the wrong yarn which unravelled the crochet on the surrounding patches. Still, I got there in the end and with a few knots tied here and there, I don't think you can see the trail of destruction. 

I quite like the different patch in the middle. Admittedly it wasn't what I had in mind originally but I think it works. I'm planning to do a border around the patches in this light blue along with the backing of the cushion too so I think that this will tie it all together and make it look like less of an accident!

It's funny, it's turning into a bigger project than I thought it would be. I thought that as it's just a cushion, it wouldn't take that long but still, I have the time now!