Memories Birthday Book

Last month Andrea was inspired by my fabric journal

and wanted to make a Birthday Book of memories

for her daughters birthday.

She collected together photos,clothes and items

from different ages and time.

The photos we transferred them onto fabric and

Andrea had fun stitching the photos and items on the

pages.

It was lovely to here the stories at 'Show and Tell'.

Now finished the pages have pockets with little

bags of first teeth, badges and keepsakes too!

A really special gift.

I can see Andrea making more fabric books.

See more by clicking the labels below.

Book Cover

With 'Lace, Trimmings, Embellishment and Transfer',

being the inspiration of the month at classes.

I have been encouraging students to go through their

stashes and see what they have and share.

Helen brought along a piece of fabric that she had

fused to a piece of pelmet vylene and wanted to know

how she could embellish it and make it into a book cover.

I love mixing up the medias as you know, so this was

great showing someone how they could take their sparkly

bits and pieces, lace and trim and have fun.

It is all put onto the stiffened fabric with fusible web

and then covered with voile and stitched.

Helen added coloured lace trimming and

a beautiful shimmery butterfly.

Well done Helen!

See more book covers by clicking on the labels below.

Fabric Journal Pages

I have been putting together some of the pages

in my fabric journal, using a mixture of techniques.

See the start of the journal

HERE

See the video that inspired this fabric journal

on my tech blog

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

Fabric Journal

At the end of last year I started to collect together all the

things to make a scrap book journal on,

'Dressmaking and Textiles'.

Today, after the Christmas break I went

back into the Studio and collected more of the things I liked.

I had seen a You Tube video a couple of months ago

on 'Fabric Journals' and this is my inspiration.

I start with this video but as you know I like to do

things my way!

See the video on my tech site

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

Diary Cover Finished

I finished putting the diary cover together today.

It looks really good and will be great to put all

my teaching dates in.

As Judy commented before,

"A cover makes them more personal".

See the blog post of how it started

by clicking HERE

and the video of how to make a fabric journal cover

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

The Bongleweed Page

This screen printed fabric was inspired by the childrens book

'The Bongleweed',

where a child watches a plant grow outside their window.

It takes over her world and she has adventures exploring in it.

I have had to deal with an awlful lot of weeds

this spring but as many a gardener has told me,

"Weeds are just plants, growing in your wrong place!".

So true! but they do take over!

See more of Quilters Cottage garden throughout this blog.

Back of Bongleweed Page

This is the back of The Bongleweed page.

There is a section from some of my screen printed fabric

I usedon the front.

The quote is,

"May all our weeds be

wild flowers"

Anon

See more of the pages as I add to them

throughout the Summer.

Yellow Iris Page

The Yellow Iris page contains all my own dyed fabrics.

The back is a section from a a dyed flowered duvet cover.

I recycle most things!

The quote is

"Nature is the source of

all artistic expression"

See more quotes and how I have used them

in my work at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Purple Iris Page

This Purple Iris Page

contains alot of my own dyed and screenprinted textiles.

It was the end of the day and screen, so I

sprinkled it with talcum powder and you get

wonderful bubble shaped spots on your fabric.

I had previously laid a resist pattern down of a flowered

heart and this is on the back, using this same technique

with the talcum powder.

The quotes are,

" Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life's coming attactions"

Albert Einstein.

and

"By changing our course of action

in a moment,sometimes in a very

small way we may redirect an

entire outcome"

See more quote andhow I have used them in my work at

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Pink Iris Page

This Pink Iris page contains several quotes as you can see.

"If a journey had no struggle.

If life had no effort.

If work had no pride.

Where would the meaning of it all be?"

Anon

Blue Iris Page

This is the 'Blue Iris', page.

The pages are all A4 size,

with the intention to join them all together into a book

ready for Alveva's Exhibition in October.

Our theme for the Exhibition is

'An English Country Garden'.

I have layered materials and made pockets for

keepsakes and memories to be added onto

the pages.

Each one contains quotes, poems and verse.

The backs are decorated too! with additions such as buttons.

I have written longer quotes on them

in my own handwriting.