Having spent all last week wevaing and the weekend gallivanting, I had to spend yesterday tidying up. This involved all sorts of jobs but mostly answering letters and emails and putting things away and I did put away this.
These are not quilting cottons but heavy duty union from the local curtain shop. I was in there buying thread and cotton tape for my jacket, it being the best haberdashery in the district, when I spotted these and thought they would make first rate book covers. My only worry is about the houses fabric. The book will have to be quite large to show off the fabric well. I am part way through binding two books at the moment but everything has been put aside for the Chanel jacket course at the end of this week. One good thing about Gill Arnold's courses is that I know I will come home on Sunday with the jacket all but finished. So next week I have plans for a bookbinding blitz. But I have to say that, in looking for some wool yarn to finish the fabric weaving, I found a large bag of handspun which has been natural dyed. None of the colours are in your face but they are quite varied from a lime green to darkish brown. There is not much of each, about 50 grams, but quite a lot in all and I think a few checked scarves would be a good thing. They would be quite masculine.
Today however I still have some tidying up to do and I have to iron and line all the fabric I washed last Saturday.
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