Courtship

This is one page from my Fabric Collage book that I had made in honor of my Mother a few years ago. I thought it appropriate to share, given Valentine's Day is soon. Funny thing; as Mom and I sifted through old photos and came across the tin type photo that you can see tucked inside the envelope, she couldn't recall who he was. Hmmm? So he became the 'suitor'' in the collage just for the fun of it! The fabric transfer of the young lady in the fore-round is my Mother around the age of sixteen.

Little Montage

I love doing little montage collections with a vintage flair and this is one that I had done one rainy day.The Christmas card is tucked behind netting and trimmed with embroidery, pieces of trim and tiny pearl beads. The piece just evokes that old fashioned feel with a combination of vintage lace, even a corner of an old hanky. Adding buttons and beads to finish the embellishments.

Some Vintage Lace

I just LOVE vintage laces and things to embellish with. There's something about finding treasures in a "reject" pile that nobody seemed to necessarily care about but perhaps knew somebody else would. Lucky for me!

Old Buttons

Whenever I find antique or just really old buttons, I don't spit shine them (eew). I like that they have character and tell a bit of a story. They can't be grossly dirty or I wouldn't buy them, but I can't say that I've ever found any old buttons that made me feel like sterilizing the whole lot. It can't be any worse than everyday exchange of currency, right?

Fabric Collage Book for Momma

I just realized that the last post I touched upon my aging parents. I want to share this Fabric Collage book that I made for my Mother.

The Cover

Her as a baby on the left & 4 generations of my fore-mothers on the right.

Mom in her school years.

The old Singer 

This project was so much fun to make. I used mostly antique laces, buttons, ephemera and just memory provoking ideas to bring nostalgia to the cloth pages. Some pages were from an old handmade quilt that someone in the family had.

There are more pages, but these were all the pictures that I had on the computer.

The photos are copies that I ran through my inkjet printer onto fabric except for the last one which was an iron on and I found that I like the inkjet transfer much better.

Maybe there will be a tutorial in the future, but for now I have more projects than I can keep up with!

Thanks for viewing!