Home Improvements

Hello, I hope you are all having a good week. As promised, here is an update about some room alterations!

Since moving into my London flat, about five months ago, I have been contemplating some changes to my room. It is a small space - and used to be an office so if full of fitted furniture - shelves and desks; nice and useful as a sewing HQ but impractial as a bedroom. Due to the fixed units it is impossible to fit a double bed in there, and the single bed that came in the room has no headboard, so my pillows fall off the bed in the night and I can't sit in bed and read etc. So, I pushed the head of the bed up against the wardrobe - which meant I had to move the bed every time I wanted to put clothes in or out. A bit or a chore. I have therefore got a lovely new bed from Ikea, it arrived today....

I can store things in my wardrobe - and my bed can act as a comfy sofa in the daytime. This is good. The cushion designs come from the Cath Kidston 'Sew' book - I made them during my Easter break in the Lake District.

Speaking of the Lakes do you like my Herdwick sheep wool blanket? I love Herdwicks - you can get these blankets here: www.cumbrianwool.co.uk

I am also pretty keen on my new-to-me eiderdown, from Donna Flower.

I will hopefully soon finish this quilt I am working on and be able to bring that up to London too for cosy winter times.