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Another Japanese crochet book, all about cushions … …. and I "need" 4 flat cushions for the chairs around our dining table, so I tried the pattern of the yellow flower, on the right of the book cover …. The chairs are covered in white heavy cotton fabric, so I can play with colours as I wish, but I'm thinking that this pattern is even good for some wall decorations…. so I'm still pondering what use is better for those flowers-to-be !!! ;oD I'm still putting some order in my stuff and in a box I found 5 granny squares I crocheted a while ago, when still in Jakarta …. what to do with them? Luckily I still have some balls of the colourful acrylic yarns I was using in Indonesia, so I decided to use some bright colours to join the squares into a little basket … …. that is nice even on the top of the wooden cat !!! Not useful, but nice !!! ;oD Last thing …. …. a big project that Margot is in love with, too !!!! I...

These little fellas are with me since a long time ( do you remember them ?) and I decided to play with them... ....and I decided to sew a cushion from them !!! Luckily I have a little experience with cushions ( have a look at my  @home made tab  and just scroll down to find the images and the links to the posts!), but I wanted a different one even if made with granny squares. So I laid some squares on the floor to understand the pattern to form a triangle... When I was sure about it, I chose some green yarn to join the squares into stripes, using single crochet stitches (I love the ridge that they create!) only in the back loops of each stitch... The lines perpendicular to the green ones, instead, were crocheted with hot pink ... Just to check if I did right.... So, I kept the fabric folded in half and I started to crochet a simple border (again a SC one, but not only in the back of the loops) using some orange.... ...