A royal cushion

After going through some pictures in files saved in random folders on my laptop, I found the 'Royal Cushion'... 

Back in 2009 ish after setting up my own company with the help of a loan from the Princess Trust, I was asked to attend a 'Ladies Day' at the local race course and to meet the Prince of Wales.  So I thought it would be rude not to make him a little some thing... so I made him a telephone box cushion, the perfect image of traditional british design.

A few pictures from the day and the red cord cushion that is now in one of the many royal homes. Charles was even polite enough to write me a thank you letter. (Well he didn't personally write it but it was from one of his many assistants.)  This cushion is one of my favouirtes, I love how simple the design is and the cord adds real texture. The designs are all free machine embroidered and still avaliable for sale if any one is intrested just drop me a comment.

Telephone box on 100% cotton

After developing this cushion one afternoon, I decided to make a little collection of traditional British icons... and three is a nice number so these two designs became firm favourites to sit along side the telephone box. It's a shame that these red telephone boxes are dying out, do you have a local one? I drive past one everyday on the way to work and it always makes me smile... good old british design.

Queens Guard on textured woven grid cotton.

London bus on 100% cotton.

Maybe I should make a London black cab to join the collection or the London skyline?

Smelly boys...

The best thing about being single and not living with any guys is that when you put the loo seat down it says down! It must be hard having all boys and having to deal with the aim issue and the constant loo seat being up... So I made this...

Design is copy righted to Elspeth Morris 2013.

Detailing. Design is copy righted to Elspeth Morris 2013.

If you live in a house of smelly boys and you think you bathroom needs one of these, then drop me a note and we can sort out your order... could be fun to personalise them with names especially if their is one person in your house that is realllllly bad!

Ocean's quilt

For a little while I have busy sewing a very pretty quilt for little Ocean. It's made up of all her old clothes from when she was tiny, the colours are stunning going from teal to pinks.... for a while it took a good bit of time swapping around squares and moving the colours about but I think the colour balance is right now.

This weekend I have been busy quilting it, always a slow task. The bulk of the quilt takes time to guide through the sewing machine, but I am half way through and its starting to come together. I am excited to get to the hand sewing part as this is my favourite part...Adding all the little details and embroidering nicknames and messages. I think it is going to look fab.

Look at Ocean and her little sister!

Lovely girlie colours... It is hopefully a palette that will grow with Ocean. At the moment she is 3, and loving pink!...but as she grows and develope the blues and teals will be 'cooler'. I hope it is a quilt that she will love an treasure, and that stories will be read under ... that it is used for picnics and most of all to cwtch up under and dream of princesses and mermaids xx

Slowly sewing the squares into stripes.

This square sums up Ocean... a little Harbour beach girl.

(You know your a real local when you grow up on harbour beach.)

Harbour Beach, Tenby.

Free machine embroidery, backing fabric & start of the quilting.

Colour flow...

Quilting till I ran out of chocolate...(it really really helps you to sew!)

Embroidery threads ready and waiting for the next stage.

I'm excited to see this quilt develope and soon bestf friends Ocean and Lily will have matching quilts!

See past post... http://yellowfields.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lilys-quilt.html