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getting basted

10 November, 2008 (23:56) | Melbourne, art, bookmaking, craft, embroidery, photography, printmaking

getting basted

I came to the conclusion today that there are some things I’m just not going to get finished by Wednesday. And I’m okay with that. Now I can concentrate on the stuff I do really need to finish. Like this book.

spine

It’s made from silk scraps I bought at Kazari Warehouse. I found five long rectangular pieces of cream silk, each with a pressed crease down the centre, so a fabric book seemed like the perfect thing to use them for. Each right hand page has photograph of my crocheted Lorenz Manifold, and each left hand page contains a section of the crochet pattern. I’m currently embroidering a line of text on each pattern page, and kicking myself that I chose the paragraph of text instead of the single sentence that I was contemplating…

chains

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