January 2009 archive

Beaded Blue December Book

This is the second of the series of four books I made using rainbow tie-dyed material as a base.  I adhered thin printed mesh fabric over the top of the base using fusible interfacing.  The nice thing about fusible interfacing is that it’s lightweight and transparent.  The drawback is that it’s very difficult to get …

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Smoke Key Book

This is the first of a series of four books I made all using the same base material.  The base material was a piece of thin tie-dyed cotton that had been part of my daughter’s skirt before it got too ripped to repair.  This cover worked really well because thin cotton adhered to 20lb paper …

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