Bookcover

My diary is used very much, everywhere, so I prefer to have this

envelope around it to keep the book from looking hackneyed

I started this one two years ago and it will still last for one year, 

aproximately.

I left a diagonal opening to keep a pen ready for writing




It is the backside, a scrap cut from a waistcoat

which I made several years ago. I didn‘t like to wear it 

and made a Japanese knotted bag of it.  

here fixing the bottom



I loved the technique how the fabric is constructed:

Cut-outs from different fabrics and raw-edge appliqued on to a 

background fabric 

A cut-out flower for the backside of the diary



Front inside - a place to keep treasured things - here a smiling granddaughter

(old photo )

Many empty pages left for future happenings.

Morning Glory Book Cover

My interpretation of the Morning Glory Pool in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, USA

It is a pool with hot water that is coloured by the heat loving algae growing on it.

The name was given because of its resemblance to a morning glory flower.

The colours are smashing in nature (and on my picture)

 

I used a very coloured home-dyed fabric, very blue piece of lint fabric

and covered it with a coloured piece of Lutradur -

sewed around it in tentacle and other shapes, cut out pieces to show the "tentacles"

and embellished it with handstitches and very few beads.

I was searching for something to make a book cover and found it in my box

of little works. It was there for about 6 years.

 

And here it is - the bookcover - by chance it had the right dimensions.

The colours are very close to the original.

 

I only added two strips of fabric to keep the book firmly inside.

 

 

 

This is the bookcover panel.

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And I made more - on the left you can see part of the postcard

I worked with.

 

The bookcover

 

The colours however are not at all like my panels. I can't get it

better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mit Blogsy veröffentlicht

Gästebuch - guestbook - livre d'or

Now it is clear - guests will write into this book

 

 

I took the idea for the letters from the newest Quilting Arts Magazine

which I for the first time ordered online and have it now on my iPad.

The letters measure 2 cm from the line to the top and are embellished

with a few very tiny cross stitches.

The actual book is in France while the cover is still in Germany.

It is made of old linen.

Friends need not write long literary essays into the book - just names and date.

So don't be afraid if you visit us.......