Travelling Book
Last year, I joined a local textiles group. We meet once a month and usually have a speaker or we take a project we’re working on plus some finished projects for “ Show & Tell”. Each year, they run a Travelling Books scheme. Each participant has their own A5 -sized book which is passed around the group of six ladies and each month a new piece of textile art is added to the book. Since I was new to the group, I had also to make a bag for the book to travel in, plus I could decorate the front of the book too. First, I made my bag using some lovely cat print fabric. I used my embroidery attachment on my machine to embroider my name before assembling the bag the same as I did here . Next, for the front cover. I had kept the off-cuts from my festive table runner so I sewed them together to make a mini-quilt and edged it with binding. To decorate it, I stamped the images from Visible Image Destination Unknown onto white cotton backed...