Paper and thread

The cover of this book was from a needle case kit supplied by #thelittlesewingmouse at one of our local craft meetings.  I didn't need another needle case, so made the cover and filled it with my experimental mulberry paper embroideries, aiming to keep mostly to the blue theme dictated by the cover.

I used a double thickness of the mulberry paper and was surprised at how the feel was very like working with fabric, with even very small stitches being achievable.

Linen cover with quilted hexagons (approx. 4" square)

This textile fragment was saved from an old Christmas card

Left: appliquéd and embroidered plain fabrics
Right: Printed fabric motif, raw edge appliqué
(used to cover most of the back of the
 embroidery on the next page).

Left: hand embroidery
Right: hexagons from printed fabric

Left: hand embroidery
Right: Printed fabric, raw edge appliqué

Back page: printed fabric used to cover the back
of stitching from previous page

More textile explorations

 Last month I posted an image of the front of a recent fabric book.  I can now show the rest of it.

Because this was a practice piece, trying out different techniques for applying paint and pattern to the fabric, no specific thought was given to the overall design.  When I decided to turn it into a book there was one printed image that didn't tie in well with the theme of dragonflies, butterflies and flora, so the pocket was designed to cover that up.  A pocket needs something in it, hence the mulberry paper lavender bag!

Unsure about adding traditional type pages, I used up a couple of small embroideries as flaps.  I'm not sure that idea was the best, but I can always rethink the format at a later stage.

The front

The back, with small pocket and mulberry paper lavender bag