Tuesday 15 December 2009

3 down................


After the rose (see post below!) I was spurred to try and create something pretty!

Here is another piece for my (hopefully) soon to be assembled fabric book. I now have three projects completed and need to do a couple more. Maureen (the mentor...lol) has kindly sent me some canvas to use as the pages for the book and am looking forward to finishing this project, not because I am fed up doing it, far from it(!), but because I have really enjoyed doing it and want to finish it!

I have again used as the backing fabric, more of the chinese silk. This time I used a pale blue piece which really is a beautiful colour and it seemed a pity to cover it but needs must.. so cover it I did, although you can see a small bit of it at the top and bottom!

I used some old cream and pale blue lace for the right hand side (the blue of which has not shown up too well in the pic), a piece of striped fabric from my stash which I frayed and some paper from the huge K and Co pad I recently bought.

The image is printed onto cotton fabric and the blue picot edging was, like all the silk, given to me by my mother in law! I put the image onto a piece of frayed muslin and hand stitched the ribbon roses and pearls.
As the theme at Created by Hand is Vintage this week, I have submitted this as my entry.

12 comments:

Yvonne said...

This fabric piece is GORGEOUS!

http://truutske.blogspot.com said...

Love your great fabric creation.
The background color is beautiful and I love the lace on the picture.

Yogi said...

beautiful and a nice piece for a fabric book

Sherry said...

Now Viv, you're just getting too good at these LOL!

Kris Dickinson said...

Beautiful!

Jan said...

I agree with Sherry.. you are getting too good. Will have to have a word with your mentor to give you a little guidance in the 'wrong' direction lol

Pia said...

woooow what a great work, love it!!!

Maureen said...

Hey slow down or your book will be finished before mine, but truly this is lovely - well done!!!

Cuchy said...

Lovely piece of art. Beautiful.

Anne said...

Lovely piece of work Viv! I like the frayed edge beside the printed image and that picot works brilliantly

Deborah said...

Really beautiful, Viv! I love the blue. many thanks for the e-card and thank you for hosting art n soul (am working on my circle book over the holidays, fingers crossed).

Anne said...

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year

Hugs
Anne