The sea has come in!

Coming home late last night, I had been to the V&A for the Quilting exhibition (more to come on my own Blog), I found a parcel had arrived. Exhaustion forgotten, I opened the parcel and found the sea.....



Thanks so much Gayle. I love this scene - a diver going down to a wreck. Plenty of detail, with ribbon, beads, lace edging and shells added. If you click on the photo above, it should enlarge to show more detail.



I love the care and attention to detail shown in the mass of small stitched items.



The back of the page itself. The furry trim is gorgeous. It is so hard to resist stroking it. Gayle has bound the edge of the page - a really nice touch which finishes the page admirably. This is making me rethink my own methods of finishing pages............. Plenty to use as inspiration here. The use of angelina fibres really adds a gentle glow to whole piece.

The letter is full of interesting information, with a postcard showing the Shasta Dam, Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta. A lovely scene.

Thanks. A word which really doesn't seem quite enough.

Leaves for Maya.

Beneath are some of the scraps which made up my palette.



Some of the stitching in progress.



Your page will be setting off on it's journey to you Maya, in the morning. I do hope that you will like it........................

Flowers are travelling.

I have just returned from posting off my first page. This was "Flowers" for Kath. The detail above is a piece I was free machine embroidering for the page. Fursther photos will follow as soon as I know the page has arrived safely.

Starting

Just starting to think about Maya's leaves pages which is my January one. Have decided to use coloured fabric and different embroidery stitches and the shapes of different leaves. Hope it works! Here's some stuff I might use and also what I think is the start of the page, very crumpled as I just dumped it on the scanner!