Tapestry cushion

When I started this project I hadn't done a tapestry since I was a child, I think I grew out of them as I don't find them to be particularly creative, they are mainly a glorified paint by numbers. But then I saw this kit by "Cleopatra's needle" and was drawn to the colours and pattern as it complemented a bedroom we have and the stitch size was not too large so looked quite attractive.  It has taken about 2 years to complete the sewing part but I still have to stitch it all together to make the cushion.

Update - I was all ready to stitch it together but couldn't convince myself to without stretching it, even by my standards it was too far out. It is currently tacked to an old table top in hopefully the right shape drying out from the water spray

The kit itself came with some lavender to put in the cushion, I was apprehensive about having it floating around inside and getting tangled in the tapestry itself so I made a little extra pouch to go between the two layers of wadding provided to stuff it.

I was a bit lazy and just used the thread that was already on my machine as I figured it would be very hidden.

Making the cushion up was really easy, I just machine sewed the front to the back leaving a small gap for turning and stuffing. I trimmed my edges to just over a centimetre and cut off the corners, turned it the right way round, stuffed and then hand stitched up the gap. And here's the finished item:

It only took me about 3 years to complete it!