'Summering' the house.

The weather has finally decided that it can be sunny now that it's officially summer, so to honour its new found sunny disposition I thought it was about time to 'summer' the house. This normally happens every year, but not always at the same time. It's the same with the 'wintering' I sometimes haven't 'done' it until I'm also decorating for Christmas!

Note: you'll see a cat in some of these photos, it's Ollie. Ollie doesn't like having his photo taken but he managed to inveigle himself into the ones in the living room then he turns up in the bedroom!

Flowers from my sister and her husband for our wedding anniversary, stocks and sweetpeas.

The sofa in these next photos is an old Habitat one (old enough to be vintage it was bought in the 1970s) that we had from my parents. I've been meaning to recover the cushions for donkey's years (I even bought some fabric, but that's long gone now!) and this last week I'd read one of Henhouse's blog posts where she's covered two armchairs she'd picked up with quilts. I then had my eureka moment, I have a collection of sheets, pillow cases, wouldn't they fit? The seat cushion has been covered in a single cover and the back cushions in pillow cases. The cushions fit inside the cover and pillowcases just fine so there's no problem of having to retuck anything back in which was a bit of pain when I'd used a couple of throws to cover the sofa.

 I've just finished Kaffe Fassette's autobiography 'Dreaming in colour' and he quite often puts lots of objects together in large numbers, which I have done here with my collection of Aynsley china etc.

This sofa is in our bedroom the back of it is covered in one of my many tablecloths (I don't have to worry about to much retucking on this one as it's not sat on that often, by humans that is, cats are another matter!).

I found this table cloth (detail shown in the first two pictures below) in our local hospice shop and it is so beautiful that it was a shame to put it away so I'm using it as a throw on the bed. It is beautifully made, completely out of tiny, neat little blanket stitches.

 Out front room sofas, again utilizing some of my vintage linen and cushion cover collections.

 There's still a couple of bits to do (our dressing room is a cushion dumping ground at present and there's a couple of shelves and a china cabinet that are a bit bereft due to my grouping lots of china together). Hopefully, these will be done this week, but I have a few things to make for my sister's birthday and a couple of other things that should really be finished this week.

TTFN
Louise

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