The bag is made from 4 fat eights of book theme fabric. I had bought the fabric a long time ago, intending to make a bag from it. A librarian I worked with is retiring tomorrow, after 44 years in our library service. She is a very lovely gentle person and so I have made the bag as my gift to her. I only used the four fabrics - it is about 30cm square, fully lined and padded with fusible pellon.
The cushion started as a project in my quilting group a fortnight ago. To participate, we needed to bring in our buttons, plus a piece of fabric lined with pellon, or an item of clothing. We then drew the hearts and sewed buttons in the heart shape. I wanted my button heart to look sumptuous. I had a collection of leaf buttons from a Button shop in The Rocks, Sydney. The fabric is left-over scraps from Tegan's Year 12 Formal outfit. The buttons are mostly plain shirt buttons - I've used pearl buttons on the leaves and also several fancy flower buttons. I finished it off with ruching and it is for our spare bedroom.
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