I haven't had much time in the studio lately....just busy with other life stuff. So I was pretty tickled when a couple people shared something they created inspired by something here on the blog. That makes me so happy.
A week or so ago Lily asked about the button hole binding technique that I used on Emily's journal. I sent her a video that has been helpful to me and links to several of my posts where I shared some of my favorite button hole books.
She got right on it...and made her first journal using the button hole technique. Well done Lily!
I love that she used brown packaging paper for the signatures...also a nod to Emily's journal filled with paper bags. I like her choice of fused fabric for the inside cover.
Back in 2020 I was commissioned to make a fabric piece to mimic stained glass for Amy. Before I made hers....I made this practice piece which I blogged about here.
I tweaked the pattern a bit for Amy's and you can read about her piece here in this post.
I fused batik fabrics pieces onto my hand drawn pattern...then covered all the seams with hand dyed black fabric to create the trees and the stained glass lead effect. It's a fun process...there are lots of photos in the links.
Randy saw my practice piece on the blog...and was inspired to use my pattern to make an actual stained glass piece while taking a class. I was tickled that he sent me a photo. His window is 65 by 25 inches and took about 8 weeks from pattern to installation. The frame is zinc and all the black trees are lead. Pretty darn impressive. Well done Randy!
But she was ready to go with the flowers in her lap...and snapped this shot at a stoplight with the arch in the background. I love it...and it's a fitting end to their visit to St. Louis!
It's time to head home. I had to chuckle because they actually went a little bit west before the home stretch going east.
I feel as though I just had the chance to visit a captivating art museum, MaryAnn!
ReplyDeleteLily's handmade book with buttonhole binding has so much visual and textural appeal for me—terrific binding, terrific inside cover, terrific brown packing paper signatures, terrific stamped tree and stitching on the cover, terrific handmade tree stamps. Wow.
All three stained glass pieces, whether fabric or glass, dazzle me. Bright, upbeat, colorful, and light-filled. What an accomplishment Randy's 63 x 25" actual stained glass piece is—that's a major undertaking.
And the traveling flowers looked happily at home no matter where in the world they are!
Thank you for curating this exhibit!