A freezing wintry day was cheered by the bright colours of the materials used in this day school. Margaret Stanford makes beautiful book covers from recycled scraps of fabric, the sort we all have in our stash. She brought heaps of scraps for us to use. We all chose scraps in our favourite colour scheme, cut them into strips and arranged them on a piece of calico. We machined them down, then cut the fabric crossways into strips, and arranged them on another piece of calico, resulting in a pattern of random squares, which we machined down with meandering stitches. Then the fun began with picking pieces of glitz and glitter to add in small scraps over the fabric. We then used some of our fancy stitches and threads to heavily cover the material in random paths of stitch, consolidating it into a whole piece of fabric.
After lunch Margaret showed us how to line and finish the book jacket, she had brought the precut pieces of liner and bondaweb, and we finally stitched it all together, meaning we could finish the day school with a completed piece of work! All the books were completely different, and looked like a jewel box of colour and texture.
We worked very hard, but it was a very satisfying and enjoyable day.
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| Margaret's Own Work and Demo Sample |
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| First Stage - arranged the strips of fabric |
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| Second stage - the cut strips rearranged for the base fabric, and trying out bits of 'bling' |
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| Selection of the completed books |
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| All the books - a jewelled 'patchwork' |
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