Another new book

Oh no I've found ANOTHER new book to work on.  I must stop finding new books - have to finish the ones I'm working on at the moment before going any further.   Anyway, the inscription written in English shows that this book was given to someone Christmas 1919, who could obviously read French because the book is written completely in French (see first pic below).  So it may be useful for some work about Christmas, or it could be that the letters and cards I found in France will fit in somehow.  Food for thought.....


As you can see, it says to 'dear Peter' from 'Uncle Victor'

 Here's the front cover -

The pictorial engravings are all in black and white, and I particularly like these -

More on the Skirt

I have taken a few more pics of the Skirt shown on the previous blog entry.  There's a bit more detail in these -

Some machine sewing, some hand sewing and some painting

 A mixture again of hand sewing, machine and paint

Book Art - Skirt

Have just finished my painted skirt to go with the Dressmaking Book I have been working on.  The two will now form one piece of work, which will be an installation.  Here's what the skirt looks like -

It took a while to finish.  I started it a long time ago, cutting the skirt out and then painting and embroidering the design on.  Have now finished all the sewing, seam, hems and fastening.  It is circular, so not an easy shape.










Here's another image -

It's quite difficult to photograph.

Anyway, will now put the finishing touches to the book which I showed before and get the two together.

Collage

Have been busy with some more Collage -



These were influenced by playing the game like Consequences
that I mentioned before, called Exquisite Corpses (see earlier blog entries)