It's my cousin-in-law's birthday and we're on a tight budget at the moment. I decided to make her a gift for her student bedroom so I raided my scrap bucket to find little bits of fabric. There was no particular pattern, just an idea of using blue triangles of different sizes and one yellow triangle.
It took a little while longer than I had anticipated to complete. The process was quite fiddly and I'm guessing as there was no particular size to follow it involved a lot of cutting. Perhaps this is also partly because I was using scraps so each piece of fabric was slightly oddly shaped and it was a little bit of a challenge to 'square' the fabric up. Perhaps to make it slightly easier I ended up making all of the triangles right-angled.
I've made it an envelope cushion and the back is an olive green as a bit of a contrast to the cushion front. I've tried making an envelope cushion before but I didn't leave enough fabric for the overlap, but this one worked.
This is a close up of the cover and shows my favourite bit; a tiny triangle that just peeks through. You can see that I've had to add white strips of fabric in order to square off the cover. Some of the patches ended up being less than 1cm wide. All in all this was a good little project to use up lots of scraps, not that you would know it from looking at my scrap bucket.
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