Mushroom Lane

I recently went to a lions fundraising auction and scored this old fairy down eiderdown feather blanket, It was a bit worse for wear..but only 2 buks! I had to have it, even if it meant lugging it around in the sun for the next few hours...I eagerly inspected it when I got home and decided that it needed a jolly good wash. In the front loader it went, when.....yes you guessed it it...my lovely blanket blew up in the washing machine! Still to good an opportunity to throw away, I decided to make a new cover and rescue the feathers that had survived the torture chamber that was my electrolux!

I had these pieces of linen and bought this brown and tan cotton form Arthur toy for $6 a meter,

and sewed roughly the same size giant pillow case.....

Chop...chop...chop....

This was the trickiest part. I tacked and pinned a boarder down but sewing through the feathers was very difficult, as well as managing the bulk of the blanket on the side of the machine. It also kept getting caught underneath which meant lots of unpicking and frustration...arrrggghhh....and maybe some swearing!

Ta daa.