Initially all went well - I had great fun choosing the fabrics and enjoyed piecing the top ... but then difficulties set in. I had a ripple - no, not a ripple - a great big tidal wave - in the sashing. I decided to ignore this and persevere, but as I am sure more experienced quilters could have told me - I was only heading for even greater disaster. Of course in the end the whole thing became a dreadful mess, so I simply chucked it into the back of my fabric cupboard and tried to pretend it didn't exist. I succeeded for a very long time, several months in fact, until I went hunting for fabrics to put together this Dandelion Patchwork cushion for April's issue of the Bustle & Sew Magazine ...

While I was rummaging around in my cupboard for the fabric, I came across my poor sad discarded quilt - and thought to myself, "Those bunnies deserve better than this!" Then I bravely took my shears and cut the embroidery out of the quilt. When I'd finished trimming and squaring off the edges I was left with four 7 1/2" squares - a really awkward size. So I decided to use a log cabin design to make two rectangular cushion covers, Spring and Summer on one, and Autumn and winter on the other ...  some of the fabric strips are the same, but others are different to create a different feel to each one. For example, they have the same Lotta Jansdotter print (Florine) in the first top strip, but the winter cushion version is in the grey colourway whilst summer is in the golden colourway. The same - but different.