The Dorset 'Shirefolk'

Back before Christmas I bought some lovely old nursery curtains at the flea market. They were quite expensive so I tried some desperate haggling as it was a print I'd had before but in a colourway I'd not seen before. You know what it's like when you know you can't go home without something or you'll think about it forever after, don't you? Please tell me it's not just me!

Christmas took over and then a couple of weeks ago I got chopping.

The fabric is 'Shire Folk' by Burgess Ledward and has lovely pictures of little critters going about their daily business. 

Well you can see.

 

  I'll let them do the talking. Hedgie and Moley that is.

I made a quilt teamed with grey polka dots and backed in a pink vintage wool blanket. The squares are all finished with individual buttons at the corners.

A pair of cushions backed in green wool this time. Trimmed with polka dot ribbons in pink or grey and wooden buttons.

Now adorning a sleigh bed in my antique centre unit!

I'll leave you with a similar cot bed sized version I made and sold several years ago in a different colourway.