WILD WOMAN DOLL

The doll began its creation in November at our textile meeting, the stuffing of limbs and body took ages at home before I could move on the making the full doll.

January has seen the jewellery appear and finally a small tutu.

She has very shapely legs like a dancer.  The face is a bit basic with the gel pens bleeding into the fabric but not bad for a first attempt.

NEWEST BOOKS MADE THIS MONTH

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A larger version of the concertina Coptic bound book made in class and a large soft backed book.

Doing practice books to ensure I remember the process and hopefully improve with each one.

The larger one worked well but the stitching on the spine could be straighter, either I misjudged my jig or my paper sizes varied fractionally.

I have added the trimmings to the top right hand corner of pages to make a little extra decoration matching the cover papers.

The papers were created using Brusho powder, I love the effect I get from this technique.

Next class at the weekend making a clam shell box for the new book.

Concertina Coptic book

Our last class with Joan was interesting as we did not prepare any papers or grey board beforehand.  Her suggestion was to make a small book which most of us did, measuring 3 X 2.5 inches.  I had cover paper prepared which was only A4 therefore the siz was ideal.

We cut board then 4 papers. Concertina the paper and made a jig for holes ready to stitch. We were shown books with two rows of stitch but three made the book stronger.

I hope to make another before our next meeting.!!!!