floor cushion

So I've been making this floor cushion since some time last summer.  I got all the main sewing done, but the real challenge has been finishing all the embroidery.  I (perhaps foolishly) decided to do a line of embroidery over every seam.  Yeah, takes forever, but it's a good excuse to try out new stitches.  Besides, it'll look very pretty once it is finished.  I just hope it holds up.

As you can see, there are plenty of seams to embroider. It is nice and large, but not as large as some floor cushions.  I only have so much fabric.  Pretty much all of the fabric I used I got either free or at a reduced price.  The multicolored batik was being given away free, as was the green and the pink.  I got the black at a yard sale, and the gold satin was a scrap from another project.  I was fortunate; fabric is so expensive nowadays.  

Here's a side view.  You can't really see the embroidery here, but I've already embroidered over all the side seams.  I've toyed with doing mirror embroidery on the cushion too, but I'm not sure I want to get that fancy. 

my new tent

Hi,
So I just put together a rather legitimate bed canopy.  It really would work better if I had a large ring for the clothes to be connected to.  The canopy works on a similar principle to those bed canopies which have cloth draped over a ring.  The canopy looks cool, but is somewhat precarious.  I hope it lasts.  When I can, I think I will buy a ring to make it look neater.  Here are some pictures.

 That's the good one.  You can see my soda-can lantern in the foreground, and in the background you can kind of see the hanging chandelier lantern my sister gave me for Christmas.  Here's another picture.

Neither one is very good, as I used the camera on my computer.  My roommate laughed and took my picture as I was trying to get a good image.