Circle-square cushion!

I've spent the best part of today finishing this in fact I think I may have gone a bit cross-eyed (must remember to look up occasionally). I think it was worth it though, I knew that if I didn't put some effort in I would not finish it and it would go the way of so many projects where you set out and don't have a clear plan, end up in the bottom of a bag and forgotten about.
I decided on a plain stripy square for the back, nice and simple and a good way to use up the left overs - the whole idea behind this cushion being to do some stash busting.

It's a bit crumpled in this picture but I really wanted to take a photo of it while there was still some daylight, the colours really are lovely and bright and today has got very dark and murky quite early on.

So the finished cushion, not quite in all it's glory (it's a bit dark)

I am so pleased with it! Not bad for a completely made-up, off the cuff cushion using up some old yarn that I had kicking about.
I had a spare 18" feather cushion insert which was the perfect size (more out of happy-chance than planning) and just enough of the blue left to do a nice waffle finish between the squares and to give it a neat row of double crochet to join the front to the back.

It is all ready now to sit on my sofa and no doubt get claimed by the cat, I hope you like this as much as he does :)


Edit: Day light! So here is a better picture x

The flaw in my plan

The stash busting is coming along nicely and despite my usual lack of interest in making squares (be they granny or otherwise) I have really enjoyed hooking these up. It might have something to do with the colours or how quickly the circles are made and then how nicely they become squares, or it might be because with each one I know I have been using up stuff that has been sat on my shelves for too long. Yes, coming along nicely.

So what is the flaw in my plan? Well having started with pretty much a full 100g ball of each colour, thinking 'that will be plenty', this is what I have left of my main blue colour...

 

This. This poxy little scrap that would barely go around two circles and I've only made one side of the cushion so far. Going out and buying more - although tempting -  would really defeat my stash busting ideas. So time for plan B, whatever that is.