Maisie Broadhead

Just found an amazing artist, Maisie Broadhead. She has done a very quirky take on old master paintings. Love them! Not sure how to add a link to her website, so you will have to Google if interested.


Hopefully this will work !!

http://www.maisiebroadhead.com/
 

 

 

....a better photo of the journal

 

 

 

 

Coptic Binding

The past few days I have been sewing up a couple of books, using pages I put together from junk

papers that I had sewn together months ago.

 

I sewed one book in the usual method I use, using tapes

on the spine then covering the spine with bookcloth. the other I decided to be adventurous and sew a

Coptic Stitch.

 

 

 Two days later and a lot of un-doing here is the result.

 

 

 

 

 The cover is made of book board onto which I pasted papers, a postcard, painted, distressed and matte varnished.

 

I am happy with the end results, though a bit a practice is needed to perfect the stitches!

Yesterday I discovered a wonderful blog by Sonya, who is creating the most adorable little dogs. She has a 60 day project going featuring doggies like this one

 

 

Check out the rest of the gang at

 

http://sonyasmixedmedia.blogspot.com.au/

 

Book cover

 

 

Yesterday I worked on a cover for a new Journal. Here it is so far.

 

 

I am using the stripe for the spine.

 



Block #7 of Let's Twist Again BOM quilt project

Love this block.

 

I discovered a way to "hand applique" using the sewing machine.

 

A stitch similar to a blind hem stitch is used, making the width very, very tiny, so the 'bite' into the appliqued piece is small, and using polyester monofilament thread, not nylon

 

 

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BOM Block 6....Finished!!

Here it is at long last.

the original was way too large,

so I unpicked it and made it an 18.5" square.