Fabric from Laura Ashley (and what I did with it)

I just love finding nice fabrics at the car boot. Sometimes it's in the form of clothing and sometimes it's curtains. Sometimes it's just a fabric find like this time. I just loved the dotty fabric and as I bought it (for £3, no haggling) the stall holder informed me it was Laura Ashley.

There is yards and yards of both patterns. Although I'm not wild about the mushroom print I love the spotty print. I don't know what the original plan was for the material although it came with bias binding in green and some lining material too.

I have had this fabric for a few weeks now and used it in parts for various projects. The peg basket pictured is a present for a friend who has lime green as a kitchen accent so I'm going to try and source some lime pegs to put in it. I invented the pattern and design myself using scaps of fabric, ribbon, a few colour coordinating sequins, lime green thread and the dotty LA stuff. I went with squares as they are easiest to get right! (it's the same patchwork on the back too). I also used a padded coat hanger that came with my wedding knickers on inside, as it gives better shape and support.

My next project with more of this fabric is to back a green patchwork quilt and use some as squares within it. I already did a pink two sided quilt that used many fabrics found at the car boot and some of my daughter's clothes she has grown out of so it is a sort of memory quilt. I am currently on the look out for 100% cotton green items to include in this next project. This is the pink quilt (folded). I just love wrapping up in it as it has a fleece layer inside so gets quite cosy.

Back to the LA mushrooms, I'm not sure what to do with it. Any ideas? I might even put it on ebay as it's a large piece of material and great quality as you'd expect.

Speaking of fabric finds, I recently bought a pair of curtains in a lovely red print for £1 (this included a bag of curtain hooks too!) - I didn't need them as curtains, I just liked the material. I covered two old heart shaped cushions with them and have lots of the material left for other projects. I might do some bunting with them for valentine's day or something cute like that.

Looking forward to the weekend and hoping for some good weather for Sunday. I never made it last week as I was in hospital with my 10 month old daughter who had a bad eye infection. Glad to be home and mending now!

Thanks for reading.