Book Cover, Part One
So here’s the deal… I had this idea for a gift, due on my buddy’s Jan 20 birthday. Yeah, I know, I’m a tad late. She and I have a pact, though, and she’s cool with my tardy behaviour.
Anyway. The pressie is a book cover that she needs for a much-read and beloved book. Her husband secretly sent me the book’s dimensions, then I rummaged through my painfully huge fabric stash, and finally I cut out the pieces I would need to assemble the thing. Of course at this point, creeping elegance entered the story. Which trim to use? Should I line it? What about embellishments? *sigh* So many choices, but I finally (no such word in my vocabulary when it comes to projects) settled on a basic set of stuff to use. Well, okay, so I had definitely chosen a colour set. I began assembly, and then everything went haywire. Next thing I knew, her birthday was gone and I was tearing out the stitching on this miserable thing for the 3rd time! GRRRRRR! Sometimes you just have to back away from a bad situation, and this I did, in spades. Only yesterday (after a call from that friend asking “You haven’t finished it yet, HAVE you!?!”) did I finally muster the focus to pull the bits and pieces out and start anew. This time I only had to tear the beast asunder twice before figuring out an entirely different approach to the design. So this morning I faced an ALmost complete book cover with the anticipation I could finish by supper. WRONG! I dove down a rathole this morning and ended up creating a beautiful little end piece for what WILL be an attached bookmark. I am quite pleased with this piece and how it works with the rest of the cover.
Bead materials are brass spacers throughout, papier mache’, African wood diverter, square wood - painted gold, goldstone, faceted peridot, picasso jasper, red coral, a mother of pearl and a abalone carved bird fetish, and finally a couple of brass leaf beads.
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