Last month K a very good friend of mine turned 40 and as part of her present, her sister organised all her friends to make a scrapbook page for her, celebrating her life and the lovely person she is. I’ve never totally got into scrapbooking, being, as the evidence suggests, more of a fibre than a paper girl, so I decided to do a page with some felting and embroidery. Now K is an accomplished embroiderer, C&G and all that gorgeous stuff, so I was a bit mad I’m sure!

It turned out ok for someone with no training I think! The text is printed on cotton voile, it’s sheer but I’d love to find something even sheerer for stuff like this, the felt was hand felted and dyed with KoolAid, the embroidery is hand and free machine.

  

This was made with a wool felt base dyed with various acid dyes , I added silk dyed with same shades, stitched into with various threads & metalics, I printed text from the ordination liturgy onto fabric and incorporated with sheers. Ideally I’d have printed onto a sheer but I didn;t have any ( on shopping list now!) Dove is made from undyed silk ( and has been flattened by scanner!)
it was really hard to photograph or scan!! I mounted it onto foam board that was covered with black fabric. You can see a high resolution version by clicking through to flickr and then choosing ” all sizes”.