Peppermint

I am loving all the colour around this year.  Not only for my wardrobe, but also for my house.

This is my lounge room, in a rare state of tidiness.  We repainted the low table (sadly,  the paint didn't take and we will have to sand back and repeat because it is peeling off already) and I sewed up some new cushions.  The only problem with fresh new cushions are that they make the old couch look a little dingier.

The floral ones were made from some Marimekko tea towels that I bought for the kitchen but then decided that they did not look so good there.

This zig-zag cushion was made from 98 triangles, so there's a few hours of my life that I will never get back!  The blue is a denim (from shorts I haven't even made yet), the peppermint is a linen bought specifically for the cushions and the white is a twill leftover from the white pants I made last year.  It is my favourite of the cushions.

I wanted something white and textured for the final cushion, to balance things out.   I'm not 100% happy with this design, but I was ready to move onto to something else by this stage.

I have also repainted and recovered 4 directors chairs.  The fabric was hideously expensive, but is supposedly more mould resistant than other fabrics I have tried and I have seen it used with good results at one of my sister's houses.  I could have bought it in a 45 cm width and then all the chairs would have had matching stripes, but it was more economical to buy the 150 cm wide fabric, and I can live with non-matching stripes and I even have fabric leftover to make cushions for the outdoor couch.

I have also chosen peppermint colours for my next house-y project.  I am going to reupholster the cushions in these chairs that were part of my grandmother's dining setting, given to me by my sister when I moved house.  This time round I am going to cover the cushions with oilcloth.  It does feel a little tacky to sit on, but the combination of young children and the tropics makes it a practical and cheap choice.  I have 6 chairs. I have not yet decided whether to cover all the cushions in the same fabric or go for some mix and match fabrics.