This week (no. 46) the theme for The Documented Life Project was right up my street as it told us to: Incorporate fabric onto your page. And why stop there? I went the whole hog and made my entire page in fabric. I started with a piece of heavy interfacing and sewed down strips of gelli plate printed fabric, first vertically and then diagonally.
On top of that I layered a Bondawebbed (WonderUnder if you're in the US) fabric (also gelli plate printed) from which I had previously cut out circles for another project and ironed it down.
I then stitched around the circles by hand using a running stitch and a variegated perle 5 thread (from Stef Francis), which made me regret having using such heavy interfacing! But I did managed to get that needle through the layers eventually and as I was happy with the effect I didn't mind persevering.
This is probably my favourite page from this year and it made me wonder why I hadn't made all my pages in fabric. The answer came when I added the page to my planner! It is of course loads thicker than paper pages and I would never have managed to add them to my planner had they all been fabric. Still it has given me ideas for next year!
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6 comments:
Love this!!!!!!
Love the layers and your colors, delicious!
brilliant! You absolutely excel at fabric art!!
Beautiful Frieda! Love it. Your beaded header is gorgeous too!!!!!!
I like it! Especially the gelli print fabric, I had no idea you could use it on fabric. I also like the layering and the hand sewn edge around the circles. Oh and the sewn edges all around. Looks great ��
This is wonderful! Love the circles and the colors.
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