As you can see, the two sides of the metal sheet left different impressions. Cutting one out, I told Don that I was going to insert a tiny picture of Meliss and Jace behind a window in the lullaby book ...
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| Note the cut edges on this one versus the torn edges below ... |
"Like a flap?" he asked.
"Oooooo, I hadn't thought of that!" I replied ... and promptly abandoned what I was doing to cut out a new window...
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| Serendipity: the torn edges actually lined up with the rust lines |
Which opens to reveal an ink-jet printed cloth photograph ...
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| Ink jet fabric printing invisibly basted and edged with blanket stitch ... applique would have been preferable, but the cloth quality is limiting and hard to stitch |
Happy day ... I love making tiny stitches ...
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| 18-20 stitches per inch |
Better yet, final assembly of the first lullaby book is finally in sight.
Addendum:
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| The grad school food groups revisited on a rainy day: saturated fats, salt, chocolate, caffeine, and carbs |
What magic in the secret reveal of the flap, both grandparents involved in this treasure of a family heirloom, Don the idea of the flap, Liz in the ability to make it so...your joy and enthusiasm and endless variety of magical cloth makings are so terrific Liz.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marti ... never thought I could have so much fun on a rainy day. All I need to make it perfect is some popcorn and hot chocolate.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm ...
here's a lesson in Trust. I Trusted the email to let me know when you had a new post here and
ReplyDeletewhen i hadn't gotten a notification, i came, late yesterday, and saw all that i had been missing...
so for whatever reason, the notices of blog posts aren't happening and i missed this
FLAP and it's BEAUTY FULL, this flap, it's Perfect and i love it a lot and popcorn...o h....i
want popcorn
It's funny (hmmm, maybe that should be "alarming") how much trust we put in this new world of technology. Still, I wouldn't go back to snail mail for anything. The immediacy of this communication is priceless.
DeleteI did miss seeing you, but figured your life was busier than usual ... and was so happy to find all your comments in my email this morning. For my part, I have found the Blogger utility that lets me see the most recent posts from my Kindred Spirits to be a most helpful tool. The only downside is that I often find myself the first visitor to a post, and so I return later to see what comments have been left as they usually make the story that much richer.