Frayed Edges, April 2009
Well, I forgot my camera! So despite the fact that we celebrated Kate’s birthday, I’m afraid I’ll be short on pictures. We met at Kathy’s house; Hannah was a bit under the weather and couldn’t make it, but Kate, Kathy and I had a wonderful time celebrating nonetheless. I do have pictures of the gift I made for Kate. I’ve submitted a sibling project to a magazine for consideration, but I think it will be OK to blog about this variation on the theme: an accordion book/frame/memory project.
Kate likes hands so much she picked them for her first theme for our round robin book-pages swap, and hearts for the second round. So I updated quilting’s traditional heart-in-hand motif for the end pages of this small keepsake book. The hearts are actually pockets for photos…the opening is sized to fit the wallet sized school photos. I’m guessing her two kids will be in here, and if they are, she can also use a fabric pen to write their names in the heart in the hand.
Here’s the back side of the book:
Each pocket contains a “memories” card. I thought it would be fun for the kids to add who their friends are, favorite songs, colors, clothes, sports/activities, books, movies, things to do with the family…. and I gave them two each of the cards (when kids goof sometimes they get really upset, so they got one for practice, one for real!). The heart tag is the cut-out from the window-frame on the other side.
If the magazine doesn’t want to publish this, I may just turn it into a little pattern for sale, with all sorts of ideas and variations on the theme: different ways to join the pages, different page shapes, different frame styles, using the pages as door banners (think of a photo frame page on the top, then a page for each letter in a child’s name, linked vertically to hang on their bedroom door). Could be fun!
May 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Ooh! So neat!
May 13th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I wondered what you had been up to this week! Lovely idea. The pattern definitely has possibilities.
May 13th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I could see this easily be something to give to your best friend or sister or brother or mother with photos of the two of you in the pockets and memories on the cards.
Wonderful!
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
Hi Sarah, Thanks for the info on the silicone slider. Also I love your jacket. Cant wait to make one
September 14th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
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