Cushions for Comfort....

Feeling the Blues.....

Not Very much was accomplished in my mini worlds last weekend Dear Readers, because most of Saturday was spent traveling way up into the mountains to attend a Memorial Service for a dear woman, a co-worker for twelve years, who passed away recently after a long struggle with cancer. The road was long and snowy and nostalgic, we used to go that way when I was a child and used to ski in those mountains. The weather was bitterly cold, not getting above 15 degrees F, and windy too. The tiny New England church in the Village was packed with family and friends, there to reminisce and say "good-bye" to a beloved woman whose life was too short. She is Home now. Back up in those hills where she was born and lived most of her life. We miss her. But life goes on. When I got home late in the afternoon, my eyes fell on a little pile of cloth scraps... scraps I had bought a couple of years ago on another terribly nostalgic trip to a different Memorial Service at another tiny New England church.... and had not yet made use of.....

Something about the cheerful blue flowers called out "cushions" to me....

The scrap, bought at a little quilting shop in the back of beyond, 

was only 2 and 1/2 inches wide by 22 inches long.... 

just the right size to make mini pillows!

So I spent the evening stitching up a couple of tiny pillows 

with bright 60's era patterns on them,

 and then wondered where in my many houses they should go....

I had always thought the Attic of The Lovely Old Dollhouse 

should have an old "Hippy Vibe" to it...

as though it was decorated by a teenager in the 60's....

The cushions would be perfect!

And then I thought there should be curtains too!

But there was so little fabric... 

would there be enough...?

It is such a tiny window.... 

surely there would be enough....

So I cut the remainder of the cloth in half 

and stitched hems on all the sides...

Leaving a pocket at the top for the curtain rod...

made from an old coat hanger

 (just like all the other curtain rods in The Lovely Old Dollhouse!)

Can you Believe the serendipity of how the pattern aligns?
I think they look simply Gorgeous!

But that window was still unfinished... 

It was the only window in the house that had no trim!

So I dug around in my scrap wood...

 and found the remains of that lovely old lumber

 my brother had cut for me so long ago....

And sawed it into pieces to trim the window...

And glued them in place.

The window still has no glass....

But that will have to wait for another day...

building the glass windows is not a simple task!

The framing is rough as befits an attic.

I screwed in some tiny eye-screws to hold the curtain rod...

And hung the curtains!

It was getting dark, so the picture is not the greatest...

but I think they are the Perfect curtains for this attic room!

And the only other project I made progress on Dear Readers, 

was the petit point embroidery for the Tea cosy...

I completed the front side with the Blue Willow pattern.....

And started on the reverse side....

Ii know, it doesn't look like much yet.... 

I think it is a stylized Oriental Cloud pattern.....

 Anybody can guess where this Tea-cosy will end up....!

And speaking of Clouds.... 

We are under the clouds right now...

It is snowing heavily and blizzard winds are forecast... 

we are supposed to get a LOT of Snow!

I am home from work today... trying to stay cozy...

Perhaps I will stay curled up in bed with Cushions and a Book...

For what better comfort is there than Cushions, Dear Readers,

When feeling a Little Blue?