Future fabric book

A class with Karen Ruane - Embroidery School - which started in January 2017

I am preparing to bind the six pages together. with the cover

Above the front cover

and below the backside - all sewn by hand -

embroidered and beaded - lace made by machine

painted paper fixed with French knots

A collage with paper and fabric strips, lace, hand and machine embroidery 

embellished with my favorite stitches, French knots

Machine-sewn grid over a strip of fabric,

buttonhole stitches around cut-out lace flowers

Various embellishments with silk fabric, edge of a hanky, cutwork and

lace flower (clockwise)

Bumpy bits, gimp cord, scattered octagons, buttonholed machine sewn lace,

bullion knots, embellished grid of octagons

Cross stitched letter from an earlier project, padded scrim embellishment, gimp cords

cutwork, toggles - and all this on a piece of the baptism dress of DD (50 years ago)

Top right: little pocket, hexagon cutworks, beading

Now I will invent some binding of all this.

The tower hexagons

In the shop they call the shqpe "POTC hexagons" - which means

Pachwork Of The Crosses -  but why?

I am counting - like Queenie - 38 pieces - how many I will make

I don't know yet. - I will make a table set. Nothing more.

And the class Embroidery School goes on. This is called cutwork -

the light blue part is cut out and replaced with the blue silk piece. 

Then embellished with all kinds of stitches:

laced buttonhole, French knots, bullion stitches, chain stitches - 

it will be a sample

Two more ....

Cutwork button - half of the covering fabric is cut away
and replaced by another fabric - of course
it has to be "buttonholed" at first -
and then embellished with French knots, bullions and two chain stitches, two,
more cannot  be placed on this 2,9 cm large button

A little round hole cut into the fabric
some embellishments, tiny, tiny.

Buttons can look like that
and the two rolls are called toggles