Wednesday 6 June 2012

Playing with Liberty Silks

On Monday evening my husband caught me stroking the lovely little pile of Liberty Silks we were given at the Fat Quarterly Retreat against my face, and I think he was a bit scared!

I was planning what I was going to make with those beautiful soft silks and wasn't really aware of how weird I looked :)

I think my grim bus journey back to Glasgow after the Retreat may have influenced me slightly when I was dreaming about what I would make. Let's just say that a lady was asked to leave the coach before we even left the bus station because of her grumpy, abusive behaviour, and about half an hour into my painfully uncomfortable journey, the man who was wedging me up against the window was asked by the conductor to stop eating the food out of his plastic container "You're stinking out the whole coach, mate!"

I decided to make myself a little luxury travel kit :)


I used almost all of those gorgeous silks (including the strip that tied the bundle together) to make a little travel size pillow, an eyemask, a tiny lavender cushion, and an infinity scarf to keep my neck cozy :) The pillow has a little pocket to store the eyemask and the lavender cushion.


I used a baby-sized pillow from Ikea, and some leftover flannel from backing a quilt to make the back of the scarf, and line the inside of the pillow and eyemask. The whole kit is soft, silky, cozy and I hope will make even the most horrendous journey (or camping trip!) a little bit more luxurious :)

Thankyou so much again to the lovely ladies from Liberty for being so generous with their beautiful fabric!

Once I finished making my Kit, I kept up the Liberty love and used the kit I bought from  Elizabeth and Diane at the Fat Quarterly Retreat, and made this necklace. What a great little project!



Hope you're all having a great day!
Fiona x

24 comments:

  1. What inspired makes with your Liberty swag. Your journey sounds like a complete nightmare. I'm not a great traveller. This would have done me in. I'd have got off the coach and decided to stay in London for ever rather than have to do it lol.

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  2. Wow Fi! They are beautiful and I bet they are so soft and lovely :-) I'm sporting one of my scraps tied round my head again today. Make sure you tell the liberty peeps about this, you'll be entered to win a prize. They are @lib_lifestyle on twitter and IG, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberty-Lifestyle/360958443966996 for facebook, and I think they are on pinterest as well xxx

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  3. What gorgeous makes - I am a Liberty convert!

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  4. What a great set of ideas- do as the Laura lady says x ;)

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  5. Wow, these are lovely, great makes and speedy too!

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  6. Eeek, you must have had to jump in the shower or bath when you got home to scrub the nightmare away :-) Lovely Liberty, and bravo on using every bit!! Necklace is soooo pretty - I need to make one of those someday.

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  7. Your idea was great! You will keep the silk next to your skin with these projects, which is awesome.
    Also I love the necklace, beautiful colors.

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  8. What a horrendous journey. At least you had your liberty to keep you sane!
    Loving everything you made, wish I had joined in the necklace session now, it looks great.

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  9. lovely Liberty makes, Fiona. I wasn't lucky enough to get any of the Liberty bits, so am very, very jealous!

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  10. Oh you are good! Though the bus ride sounds less than joyful!!

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  11. Gorgeous! I have only just unpacked my suitcase, it is all dumped on the sewing table for now whilst I recover lol!

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  12. What an awful end to a splendid weekend - I'm glad you survived! Your travel kit is a superb idea - just the ticket for awful bus journeys!

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  13. Oh no, boo to crappy journeys home! I think that kit should see you through any more though (and I might just have been rubbing the touchy feely Liberty bag a little too much myself lol)

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  14. Sorry your bus journey home was so rubbish! Love your travel kit (and the liberty material!)

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  15. What a fabulous idea! I need to steal it right now. Not that I ever do any travelling, but I want a set like that just to lie back and relax in my workroom!

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  16. Lol, Oh dear, not as good as the journey down then?! Love your luxury makes - and that necklace looks fab too, you crafty queen :) x

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  17. Oh the joy of bus journeys! Your liberty makes are fabulous :)

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  18. wow, very impressed with your beautiful makes! Sorry to hear about the awful journey back. Loved hanging out with you at our classes on Sunday Fiona!

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  19. Anything to make a horrid bus journey a little more bearable! I love the idea of Liberty but it doesn't figure in my budget! I only own a couple of scraps!

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  20. That is a lovely travel kit! I sure enjoyed meeting you.

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  22. I sympathise with your journey. having had some horrendous journeys back to Glasgow in my time! One involved ex-cons out of prison that day and another the family from hell passing round the vodka bottle wondering if "the wee lassie" would like a shot! Not sure the Liberty fabric would have been enough to fend them off, but it would certainly have helped me :)

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  23. Will it be luxury coach both ways next year then? Sorry you suffered so much - we were pretty jammed in the train and lucky to get seats - shorter journey though, no abuse but a wimpy eating man above my head - he was tidy though I give him that!

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  24. Beautiful necklace Fi! What a great way to showcase those lovely fabrics. Jxo

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