Another baby blanket

One of the new pieces started last week is now complete - I've crocheted through a couple of meetings, and on the bus, and my baby blanket is ready to be posted off to the new parents.

Work has also started on some soft furnishings for our bedroom in London; about a year ago I restored an old chair, and at the time bought enough of the upholstery fabric to make matching dust covers for my office equipment and a box cushion to sit on top of the blanket chest. A foam pad was bought for the blanket chest at about the same time... and has been sitting uncovered ever since, whilst the fabric lurked in a drawer in the living room. I've now started to make the cushion cover. I began by making a cover for the foam pad from curtain lining, and then started to tackle the plan for a zipped and piped cover. (In fact it was searching for the piping fabric which kicked off the clear out I tackled a couple of days ago.) I've investigated various ways of making the box cover, have decided on which one to adopt, and have made a start on construction by setting a zip into the back section of the boxing.