Kuchi Red-Violet book

This is the fourth of a series of four books I did simultaneously in which I used the same rainbow tie-dye fabric as a base. For this book, there wasn’t any green and hardly any blue in the piece of cloth I had, which I liked very much. 

The front cover and the back are nearly identical, except for the variation of cloth hue.  I appliqued the same violet tie-dye cotton (from another of my daughter’s skirts) onto it in a square, then a square of copper colored metallic material that had been used to wrap flowers.  On top of that was some trimmed origami paper, then a square of felted wool from a sweater that I adored until the moths ate it (and it got washed–hence, felted.) 

I sewed the jewelry embellishments onto the felt before gluing it, and sewed the strip of jewelry onto the spine before gluing the cloth to paper.  For this book, the Smoke-Key book, and the ‘Something’s in the Kitchen’ books, I used pieces of the manuscript of a story I just wrote. You can’t see the text, but I know it’s there.

I like this book so much, I might keep it.

I’d like to thank Mary Swallow again, for giving me the nice end papers.