Doona cover for Sofie.

Way back in September 2011 Sofie and I made a bedhead for her bed.  This was to be the first part of the decoration to be soon followed by a doona cover and other soft furnishings.  I can now say more than a year later the task has been completed!  Where does time go?

We made the cover out of vintage sheets I had inherited when my mother in law died back in 2000.  We used an embroidered double sheet on one side and other the other side we joined single sheets with a strip of headboard fabric at the join.

Back when we purchased the fabric (quilting cottons) we purchase coordinating pinks and greens.  Sofie is now a bit less keen on the pink and green so we concentrated on the green with white.  We used a coordinating green and white piece for a runner on her dressers.

I feel better now!

Look.....I've been sewing!

I have set up a sewing place in the kitchen.  We live in a townhouse without any spare rooms to set up for specific tasks.  Sofie was using this area to study.

There is a wasted space upstairs that we (We meaning my daughters) tended to use to dump stuff.  We cleared that out and put a desk there for her.  The same space has a sofa bed for visitors.  Small homes need to have multi use rooms.  This space is not fully enclosed, just an area at the top of the stairs:

So still plenty of more work to be done, but we have started. :)