Essentially you use an old wooden spool, and a long sandwich of fabrics and lace to create a surface for a tiny collage.
Wrapped up Snippet!
Shown: vintage spool, hand-dyed silk strips from another project...
Unwrap begins!
Shown: the outside back of the strip is rescued from a tattered old, old quilt top
Detail closeups of collage as the Snippet unroll
Shown: embroidered flowers from India Sari remnant; tiny metal tea set, Garden
Tea for Two from fabric selvage, tatting label and tiny vintage tatting
pieces from thrift store find...
Shown: 1898 from vintage printed magazine,
morning glory from vintage dictionary, vintage elf pin missing back
clasp, snippet from another tattered rescued vintage quite, puzzle piece...
Shown: Found paper word Yellow, tiny vintage metal hearts and button, stamp from Czechoslovakia, old tatting snippet, tiny hand embroidered flowers from vintage hankie, vintage paper four-leaf clover...
Shown: Scrap of paper from a vintage invoice for Buttons, small snippet from tattered, rescued vintage crazy quilt, vintage buttons, very old paper scrap illustration of sewing machine...
Shown: Small hexagon vintage fabric pieces from my grandmothers sewing box, metal thimble charm, vintage illustration of cross-stitch, Pattern # .15 from a fabric selvage, vintage quilted flower fragment.
Shown Full Length: 34"
When I saw this on FB I had no idea how small - or how long it was!! It's wonderful, I can't believe how many different little pieces of things have gone into it. I find there is something very magical about found things and little bits of things, its as though they are each telling a tiny piece of a much bigger story. Oh my! I just imagined a 'library' of these in one of those old printer trays!! :D
ReplyDeleteLouise, You got it exactly!!! And I love the printer tray idea....with your permission I'm going to use it!!!! :-)
DeleteWauw so cool !!
ReplyDeleteI am sanneke , u have sent me a Card via postcrossing . Thank u for your Card . U told that your husband talks to holland via radio ? Thats pretty cool ! My grandfather ( he is dutch ) he was all in the radio to haha . But now he is to old and doesnt do it anymore . And about your salad , thats my favorite salad too :) . Thank you for your 2 nice Cards . Have a good day bye bye . ( like your blog by the way )
Thanks Sanneke!!! So nice to connect with you! I am enjoying your blog as well. :-)
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