A Fabric Collage Book: Babies, Buggies and Black Velvet

Good morning and happy Saturday! I'm sorry that I've neglected this blog for awhile, but time seems to have gotten away from me.

I had mentioned in an earlier post that one of my art endeavors was to be featured in the Winter issue of Sew Somerset, and it hit newsstands on December first. It was an honor to be featured, and the really funny part is that the article that appeared behind mine was by a gal that I knew when I lived down in Florida. Things can't get much more coincidental than that!

Below are some photos that I had taken of my book before I sent it off to Somerset. I am sharing them with you since the publishers took their own photos, and mine are a little different. I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed working on the book, which was probably one of my "busiest" projects. I fashioned it after an old Victorian photo album, and the inspiration came from my growing collection of Victorian photos depicting babies in their beautiful buggies. I imagined what they might have been thinking when the photos were taken so many years ago, and this project was born.

Almost all of the items used were vintage. 

The cover is black velvet,

vintage laces,

a hankie,

brooch,

and crinkled seam binding...

A button and lace binding...

The inside front cover 

and first page with

doilies and burnout velvet...

This is one of my favorite old photos,

and you have seen me use it before...

Use of a frog closure...

Silk, lace, and old buttons...

Doesn't she look like she is

watching something?

Pretty old sheet music...

More lace, buttons, silk,

and copies of the backs of

cabinet cards...

What was this beautiful baby thinking

about?

The last page and the inside of the back cover.

I used the fringe because there was fringe

on this baby's buggy...

Instructions for making this book are in Sew Somerset! 

I hope that you have a great weekend, and thanks for

stopping by!