Coastline June

Making a coast themed page I loved the idea of showing the sea, the beach and a bit of land with a blue sky. It turned out quite difficult to get some perspective into the page.

To get the some structure into the water I weaving fine bands of fabric. The beach the dune, the green land and the sky are appliqued fabrics. At the end I stitched the two groins. The groins forms the sea - the waves form the beach.

Chris, I am relieved to hear, that you like the page.

Coastline.

As requested by Chris, here is the page I made for her.



I had originally started this piece using felt which I had made. Sadly, I just could not make this first version work. It just did not feel right.
I knew that the coastline I wanted to share was the area around Formby Point in Lancashire. This is one of my favourite places. Not very far from the famous Blackpool beach, Formby is quiet, the dunes are a fascinating place to visit. Also there are coniferous woodlands here, a nature reserve with one of the last places where Red Squirrels can be found.
A series of visits to the library followed. My favourite of all the books I borrowed was this one.
ISBN: 10 - 1905400381 (or 13 - 978-1905400386)



This photograph showed the dunes I so wanted to share.



After a lot of painting, and handstitching, my once white sheet turned into this scene. I added figures applied using bondaweb.



I had found a suitable photograph on the internet, so tried to copy this. The photo above shows the scene I was building against the photograph I had found.
On top of this I used a couple of maps of the area printed onto silk gauze.




Along with the page, I added this explanation.

And this list of the materials used in the construction.

A rather late coastline.

I have already sent a message to Chris to announce that my May page will finally be posted tomorrow.
My apologies everyone. No photo with this post.
I must go and get on with my page for June - Art Nouveau for Cobi.

Coastline Preview

This is a preview of my coastline for Chris. I posted the page yesterday and hope it will arrive soon.

Have a nice week end.

Coastline

This month the topic for the fabric book page I'm going to sew is coastline. To find some inspiration I looked through my photos. The pictures I picked show costs. I think for the topic coastline I have to make a lot of these views behind each other. But how to take a photo of it? I think to get an idea of the topic it is ok. Now I have to think about how I can implement my ideas.

Apologies to Chris, and Carmen.

I am so sorry that your May page - Coastline - is going to be a little delayed, Chris. I had started the page much earlier in the month, but since I just wasn't convinced the technique I planned to use was working, I decided to start again.
The page is nearing completion now, but it will be a few days before I can get it into the post. I shall let you know when the page has been posted.
On another topic, my April page -Castles- does not seem to have arrived with Carmen. I do hope that this arrives soon. If not, I shall remake the page and send a replacement for you.

Coastline for Chris

Here's my coastline page for Chris.

March page update

As some pages seem to have gone missing or people are running late, I've posted my March page just for reference as I know Carmen said she did receive it. Maybe others are doing what I am and saving a copy of everyone's pages for future enjoyment! Also I hope my coastline has sailed safely across the sea now? We have so many strikes on here in Greece at the moment that I can never be sure what's happening with the post!

Slightly late Coastline

Sorry Chris, had a visitor and got a little bit behind. However you page is now finished, see a snippet here, but unfortunately I won't get to the post office until Tuesday and there's a strike on Wednesday..........................what can I say??? I hope the snippet whets your appetite and that you like the photo I took of the south coastline of Crete while we were away with our visitor. Regards Kath

Coastline

Here's the page I created in March for Chris. Its an aerial view of a stretch of coastline. The two blue ovals are swimming pools!!!
I'm glad you liked the page Chris.

Coastline

Here's a peek at the page I've created for Chris in March . Chris it will be posted tomorrow and I hope you like it.

I'm going to be away for three weeks and I will have limited or no internet access but I will be carrying work with me and the page for April will be going along.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate and when I'm back I'm sure my page for March will be waiting for me and I'll be able to share a picture with you.

Juliette's page

Hi Juliette, I've just posted your page. Hope you don't mind if you get it early, we've so many strikes going on here in Greece now I thought better safe than sorry! Hope you enjoy whenever you receive it.

Snippet for Juliette

Here's a peek of my page for Juliette plus a photo I got off the web hoping to be able to emulate in Kantha, but I chickened out! However hope it brightens the February weather for you! Are you due the snow again? We've got strong southerly winds at the mo; means it's quite warm, but also that we get 'Gadaffi's revenge' that is a lot of Saharan sand so the sky is about the same colour as part of your page!!