Book Project is Completed!

I used a piece of the hideous pinkish-brown fabric I overdyed last July, in this project.  I am really happy with the results! Below is what each panel looked like before I folded and stitched the final construction.

I used the marks on the fabric to guide my art work.   This is panel 1.

This is panel 2, and my favorite.  I think it is amazing just as it is, without being folded into a book.  However, it is now folded into a book.

This is my finished book.  It is hand dyed, hand-stitched, machine stitched, and appliqued.  Click on a photo to enlarge it and see the details!

What's On the Design Wall in November?

Things are finally settling down for the year, so I am making some regular quilts that have been on my list for a while.  I got the donation quilt top and back finished and delivered to my long-arm quilter.  Now, I am working on "the black quilt".  I had placed over fifty black backgrounded fabrics in a box last December, and now I am working on that quilt.  I am really knocking it out, so I can start on the next one.

I am determined to only use fabrics that I already possess.  I am also tidying up the quilt room, to make room for a few friends coming over for a sew day on Saturday.  This is looking good.  I cannot remember if Lynne, of Patchery Menagerie (blog), used sashing or not.  I will have to go check that out.  I want mine to look different from hers, so I have not looked at the one she posted, last year, since last year. 

Dyed, Stitched, and Quilted Book Project

This weekend I attended the virtual Montana/Idaho SAQA Region Annual Meeting.  It was amazingly engaging!  I learned so much!  On Sunday, we started a project where we performed mark making on fabric and then learned to fold it into a book and stitch it together.  The real trouble is, I now have two new projects on my list that were not there on Friday.  They are both going to take a little while, because I have to think about how I proceed, when it comes to art.  

The one I am working on now, I started with a piece of hand-dyed and somewhat marked fabric I created in July with my "Sewful" stitching group.  At least, when this book is complete, I will have used the fabric in an art project.

This is showing the folding part, but I had not started any real stitching on it yet.  I had only stitched the interfacing onto the wrong side of the fabric, at this point.

At this point, I have determined which panel part of the book will be the cover.  I have stitched most of this owl.  I need to add the beak and talons.

I have two regular quilt projects that I planned to start, this month, and I had better get started!