beaten gold


Aug 18
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Metal shim can be stitched, but not much. The density of stitch I usually put on is enough to profoundly perforate the stuff and cause it to drop off the postcard. So I went around it instead, with bobbin work. Metal doesn’t photograph well either.

Alice is home from camp. She rode a small determined pony.

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She drove a toy pony.

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She slept most of the way home. She was pleased to see us. We are pleased to see her too.

And finally – the fabrics came from the hand printed fabric swap. I made a mosaic of the pieces that came to me, and posted it on Flickr here.  There are two that are not part of the Flickr pool – some astounding frogs, and an intriguing red with black faces printed on it.


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