We often visit Cambridge in the UK because our son lives there. It is such a friendly and beautiful city! We love to picnic and one of our favourite spots is Jesus Green.
This folded book depicts a memory of one of these precious moments where everything felt wonderful and everyone and everything seemed to be smiling.
It is a fabric and paper collaged piece, with hand stitching and embellishment. I also used some watercolour paint.
The technique used here, I learned from the textile artist Anne Kelly. A PVA glue solution gets used to attach paper onto fabric. At first I was a bit hesitant about it, but I found myself loving it: the technique makes a "fabric" that is really great to stitch through! And I get to use some of my lovely paper pieces I have been collecting for years!
The cover of the book is a piece of a kitchen towel and it has a button and beaded cord to close it.
I hope to have the time and energy to make many more of these memory-books!
I made a little video where you can see me opening the book, which you can watch it if you click here.
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