Another finished book

You may remember I mentioned last year that I had chosen 3 words that reminded me of each place I had lived.   I made a zigzag sketchbook with little drawings of maps of the location of each place.  I decided I wanted to copy these maps into the fabric book I had made with one piece of the map printed fabric I had made at the Summer School last year.

It's a highly patterned fabric and I didn't think the map would show up.  In addition I had already bonded the pages together so each map would appear on both the front and the back of the page.

It was suggested that I sewed the maps onto organza and inserted them into the book.  This has worked really well and here's a short, wobbly video of the finished book.

Thank you for joining me today.
Bernice

Eclectica Exhibition

It is well worth making a trip to the Museum of Cannock Chase.  As you know I am in a textile group called Eclectica and we have an outstanding exhibition at the Museum.

Kate Brierley took all these fabulous photos.

And if you're interested in local history, the history of mining and what life looked like in the 1940s there's lots of other things to see at the museum as well as our wonderful exhibition.  And there's a local nature reserve to walk around.  Close by is Cannock Chase and in the other direction Chasewater.

I took these photos of my work

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Orange is not just a fruit

Just to cheer us up during these dull, dark days here are some of the photos I took for the photography group.  Our theme was colour.  I chose Orange.

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Bernice