Last-Minute and on a Shoe-String

We're running Vane Tempest Sessions for one final night this year and decided fairly last minute that it would be a good idea to have a poster to remind students we were back after the Easter holidays. However there wasn't any time to get posters printed in colour so I went for the black and white approach to keep costs down when printing from home. Normally publicity takes me a few hours to get looking just right but this one took about 15 minutes!

Recycled Cushions

I'm not always very good at throwing things away even if it's something I never use but I love to recycle. Clothing and other bits of material are especially good for this.

This green cushion was made out of a t-shirt that I'd had a little while and really loved but the style wasn't very good so I just didn't wear it much. It was fun to make (although not as easy as I'd expected it to be) and only took a few hours. I'd anticipated using the original side seams but they weren't straight enough so I ended up cutting a square each from the front and back and then sewing them together. I did however use the t-shirt's bottom hem on the back opening which gave a neat edge that I didn't have to do myself!

I also made the purple cushion from some old felt I had and another old t-shirt, but I can't claim originality for the idea because I found it on a Google image search!