Lenna's passion book

Hi all! Dawn, sorry it took me a while to respond to your query on how we were all doing . . . I was busy thinking about what to do for the inside of my book before sending it off. I started by finishing the cover! I added a bit of trim I had painted for another project to the cover's edge and I also added a velvet rose/leaf. I glued these things on. Next, I looked around my studio and gathered a few things to create a textural, passionate page! I ended up making 2 pages because I wanted to try out my idea for how I am going to put all the pages together when the book returns home. I've cut out denim "spines" to use to connect two pages. Later I will sew through ALL the denim pieces connecting two pages and through the denim piece on the cover. You just have to create one page (i'm including a template) stash it in the book loosely, and I will fix it up when it comes home. See below - click on any photo for more detail:




For texture (my sub-theme) I used cordoroy, velvet, a piece of knitting my mother did, transparencies, silk, metal and buttons. For my passion theme, on the first page I concentrated on passionate kissing, following your heart and I added a scan of my husband & my wedding rings/hands. For page two, I used image transfers and inkjet prints of photos onto fabric that express my love and passion for walking outside. I will wrap this book up in a Priority envelope and mail it to Sara in Tennesee tomorrow, march 31st - wow! We're off! : ) Lenna

How's Everyone Doing?

How are the journals coming along? I'm working on mine today and am really happy with how it is turning out so far - it will be ready for mailing on or before April 1st. Isn't Lenna's fabulous? Just love the theme and colors.

Remember that this first part of doing your own cover, sign in page and journal page will be the most time consuming of all. After this you'll be doing one page a month in someone else's fabric journal.

I scored on some great upholstery fabric samples at a local store here in Portland, OR. It is a store where people and companies donate leftover stuff that is then sorted, priced and sold for art or whatever. I just love going there and never know what I am going to find. Well . . . . . last week I went in and there were two large laundry bins FULL of high quality upholstery samples - all you could stuff in a plastic grocery bag for $3.00!!! I bought a full bag and most are perfect sizes for small fabric projects like these journals, ATCs, etc. I was so excited to find these and they really inspired me to get my journal started.

My theme is Travelers and I'm going for a "crazy quilt" look. I'll post some pictures soon.

Dawn

Lenna's RR Fabric Book

Hello from Lenna! I am a fabric and mixed media artist and instructor living in Connecticut where we still have a foot of snow on the ground March 19th! I have been thinking about my fabric book for Dawn's RR for a while now and finally fleshed out some of my ideas yesterday. I decided on a theme of Passion, with a sub-theme of Texture - it should be fun to work in!! It is 5-1/2" x 7-1/2"in size.

I have participated in (or hosted) Fabric Book RRs and fabric page swaps before and so I am really looking forward to being involved in this process again. From taking part in Dawn's Oh So Charming Swap I know that she is a very organized and enthusiastic hostess - yay! This will be great. I'm glad I'm here in this group Dawn has organized through art-e-zine. I just wrote an article about RRs for art-e-zine, you'll find it published on the art-e-zine site. Gillian did a great job with it!

I am going to share my cover which is not quite done, but almost. It is one-piece, with a denim "binding" piece in the middle - I am recycling my husband's old jeans. : ) In the past I have done wrap covers, eyelets & ribbons, and accordion style fabric books . . . . and so instead, this book is going to have additional strips of denim (just like the cover) that I will use to attach all your finished pages to. Then I will sew through all the denim strips and tie them off on the outside of the cover. I got the idea from the book, Fabric Art Journals by Pam Sussman. There is a book she makes in there that's something like this. When I ship my book off I will send a template for the size your pages will need to be, and I will sew all the pages together with the denim strips when my book comes back home to me. Click on the photos below for more detail.

This shows my sign in page on the inside front cover . . . . I settled on these metal rimmed tags as they just seemed to be the best thing for this book. You could do ATCs or tags or fabric squares, or even just have everyone write their name on your cover or page - which you are also welcome to do in this book. But I liked pinning these tags here and letting you decide whether you'd pin the tag back in place or pin it to your page - it's your choice! The back pocket on the inside back cover has a gel medium image transfer from a photo I took, and inside the pocket I wrote some notes to you about my book. There are also lots of blank cards for you to write notes to me (!) if you wish, about creating in my book.

The actual fabric page to go inside I still need to do, and I may add some velvet leaves to the cover. The image on the front is a fabric collage sheet image from Alpha Stamps called "The Balcony". Any feedback is welcome!

: ) yours creatively, Lenna Andrews

Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work, and I'll try it." -Diane Mariechild

website: http://www.creativelenna.com

newest art: http://creativelenna.blogspot.com/

Hi I figured It Out Finally!!

Hi All
I figured out the sign in thing and so hope you all have not really thought I was totally addled in the brain!!!! I am happy to be here and look forward to this fun round robin!! Thanks for having me and Dawn for setting this all up!!! I love to create with fabric,fibers,papers,beads and now knitting too so love to have lots of things always in progress so don't get bored with one thing all the time!! can see all my work etc on my blog!! thanks! these are my latest fabric pins hope you don't mind me posting them here?? will post my book as I get it all ready!!
BIG Hugs Linda
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Welcome to the Fabric Book Round Robin Blog

Each of the nine participants are invited to post about their fabric books and themselves as they create their own and contribute pages to the others. Our first mailing date is April 1st - meaning that each participant will mail out their books on or before April 1st. Once the books are received by the next player, hopefully there will be photos and information posted about each book.

Most of all we are here to have fun and make some great fabric art!

I'm Dawn Sellers and I will be the hostess of the round robin. Wrangling everyone together and gently reminding of the mailing times. I have been doing all kinds of artsy crafty things my whole life. I enjoy all the wonderful artists that I meet through projects like this and love to swap art with others. I do have a work life where I credential employed physicians for a large metropolitan health system in Portland, Oregon. I own an antique store with my husband (he runs it most of the time) where I work on Saturdays and Mondays, in Hillsboro, Oregon. I really love to make jewelry, scrapbook and alter junk. My time is really limited so I do best with portable, small and quick to finish projects. I always have several "irons in the fire" as my mom always tells me.

*me*

Hi everyone - my name is Robyn and I have been blogging for over 3 years now. Just beware, my blog is a place where I get that chatter out of my head, so sometimes i may appear a little demented.

I have never created a fabric book as such but have been playing with fabrics for many years. And I love it! I am trying my hand at mixed media at the moment, just for fun really.. I also make art dolls/spirit dolls from cloth.

I have started my cover & first page of the Goddess fabric book. I just found an image I like and printed it off on my printer. My printer is an inkjet and I don't think the images are waterproof...

I am really looking forward to getting to know each of you while we create & play together.

oh and I live in Australia - postage between the US and my home takes around 7 days by airmail. Surface mail takes about 3mths!