Winterberry cushion

I’m keen on using up scraps and if possible doing it after finishing the project they were created by. I finished this quilt in September using a jelly roll and charm pack (read more here):

I had a few blocks left over: I stitched them together to make a cushion cover: I’m starting to see now how this fabric is quite Christmassy, I think when I was working on the quilt in the summer I was refusing to acknowledge that Christmas was in the not so distant future.

I quilted this pretty much as I quilted the quilt using Aurifil 2021 50 weight and stitching 1/4″ either side of each block seam line and I also quilted around the middle square (or 4 squares) to add a bit of extra interest.

I had fun working out how to make a back from the small amount of fabric that I had left from backing the quilt; and this is what I came up with: I had a long strip of selvedge plus 8 or so inches and managed to cut and piece into a usable size leaving the selvedge on display. I added a zip in the middle and a flap to cover it. Now there are just a few little bits of this fabric left that have been added to my low volume scrap collection.