Tuesday, January 18, 2011

For Christmas I made Jay a small book about his collection of Marimekko shirts. He has 10 of them, all different color combinations. I painted the fabric covers to look like the hand screened shirt fabric.

The inside pages are a double accordian with reversed cutouts. The images are hand drawn and painted with gouache. I need to make a slipcase for it, and then I will enter it into a show on miniature books. It is slightly too large, being 5 1/4" high, a little above the 5" speicifications, but I hope it will slip by.

This was a fun project- a knitted chain link necklace. Now this has potential, and is super easy to make! Thanks to antelopebaby for the pattern.