I have one of those Victorian houses which is described as being a one and three quarters villa, which means that the upper storey has sloping coombed ceilings in places, cottage style, it’s just the way it was originally designed.

But it means that there are quite a few places where you can’t hang pictures on the wall, due to the angled slope, so I’ve made a virtue of the design by displaying fabric which I love so much that I can’t bear to cut it up for craft purposes or for making into something small like cushion covers. I just keep the material intact and back it with some thin wadding/batting and lining and sometimes sew around outlines in the design to accentuate it.

I also love elephants and have quite a collection of them made mainly from wood, china and soapstone too, so when I saw the fabric below I just had to buy it. I sandwiched the three layers of materials together to give it some weight but I didn’t fancy sewing around the many motifs, I decided to use buttons to embellish the designs and tie the layers together, so my button tin was raided and this is the result.