One of the founders of the interior website Bodie and Fou, Karine Kong, lives in this wonderful white home not far from the center of London. As in other inspirational home pictures I posted on this blog, I find the combination of the black, white and wood items, very clean and it gives a calm feeling to the home. I found these fabulous pictures on Milk magazin.
I have a blog crush: Helt Enkelt. It’s a blog with quit a lot of followers already, so maybe you might already know it, but anyways I think it’s worth sharing. She takes such beautifull pictures of here own home, clothes, coffee moments and places she travels too. I find here styling just perfect. Everytime I see a picture of here house, I would just want to jump into it and go live there. Here you can see some of here recent pictures, but you should definitly go check her blog out if you like interior and styling. But watch out, you can easily spend hours on this blog (you are warned).
* All pictures are taken by Anna-Malin from Helt Enkelt. If you are interested, you can follow her beautifull shots as well on Instagram here.
This weekend I made this bench cushion, inspired by the Pia Wallen blanket that’s so popular nowadays. First I made a square quilt top and after I constructed it into a pillow.
I made it for the Molger bench from Ikea, but with a little bit of adjustments in size, it should be possible to make for any kind of bench or chair.
The materials you will need for this tutorial:
– Two colors of cotton (I used about 1m black and 20cm white)
– Foam for the inside of the pillow (2 cm thickness)
– Ruler, scissors and threaded sewing machine
– Zipper (40cm or shorter)
First, cut out all the pieces for the quilt itself (you will have to cut a lot of squares). I used a seam allowance of 1 cm (included in the measurements) so it would be easy to iron the seams open. Than cut the foam and the pillow parts.
After you cut all the pieces, you can set the pillow parts aside and start assembling the quilt top.
01. First you will make strips of each 10 rectangles, sewn together, like in the picture. In total you will assemble 19 of those strips. When the strips are ready, iron the seams open.
02. Sew all strips together like shown in the illustration, and iron the new seams open. Your quilt top is now ready for assembly.
After the quilt top is finished, assemble the pillow with the other pieces.
01. Fold pieces 5 like shown in the pictures, and stitch it to the zipper end, so the total length of this piece is 40 cm (if bigger, you can cut this later on).
02. Sew pieces 4 on the sides of the zipper. After this, cut excess fabric that could be there so the size of the total zipper piece is as big as piece 3.
Here you can find further explanation of the assembly of the zipper. It’s actually a tutorial for a clutch, but the zipper principle is the same.
03. Sew the zipper piece, piece 3 and pieces 2 together on the sides (seam allowance 1cm) and make a rectangle. These pieces sewn together will form the sides of the pillow.
04. Pin the side pieces to the quilt top (right sides facing each other) and sew together.
05. Open the zipper
06. Repeat step 04, attaching piece 1 to the pillow.
07. Turn the whole thing inside out through the zipper hole, insert the foam and voila, your pillow is ready to be used!
One of my favorite Danish design brands, Normann Copenhagen, released a new series of Gem Carpets in tree colors (shades of blue, grey and purple). Designer Anne Lehmann got her inspiration for the asymmetrical shape and three-dimensional effect comes from nature’s flint stones, minerals and precious stones. The idea behind the Gem rugs came from the inspiration she took from the crystal structures in minerals such as amethyst, quartz and pyrite, which are not defined by an oval or square shape, but rather by asymmetrical facets.
As you might have noticed from this post, I like wood beads. This time I bought some bigger beads, to make a wood bead potholder. I used a neon yellow string with it, because I like the combination of the shouting neon with the natural and calm wood texture.
I went to the craft store and bought 15 Wood beads (diameter 30mm / about 1,2 inch) and a stretch chord. You put all 15 beads on the stretch chord and make a double loop on the end. I pulled the chord a bit so my circle would be tight enough. Then I hid the two ends in the last two beads so they weren’t visible and voila, done. A quick and simple DIY project to make a nice new design object for your dining table.
