Lacebook for Liz

I very recently sent this parcel off to my friend, Liz,

as a birthday gift.

This shows the attached tag and I wrapped it

 in some layers of crazy patch worked laces.

Now Liz is really keen to start her first fabric journal 

and being a wee bit intimidated as to

where and how to begin 

I decided to make a small lace book

which she could refer to.

I used one of my vintage books with some precious

 old vintage images of women in pen and ink

set in garden scenes.  

 Some beautiful embroidered lace and linen

tablecloths were incorporated here.

 vintage knitted doilies, Suffolk puffs, 

lovely tortoiseshell buttons

and tiny lace motifs

If you look very closely at the left side of these pages

you will see a tiny hand crocheted flutter-by

which I received from Karen of

www.todolwen.blogspot.com

Thank you dear Karen for gifting me with some of

your very own  beautiful hand work which I could share 

here.

A lace pocket here holding another  handkerchief

in it's own little pocket -

that's a pocket within a pocket you might say!

 These pages incorporate some very old

wool embroidered fabric which belonged to the

the parents-in-law of a dear friend of mine, Jan.

- a rusty old bottle top

always just goes with lace.

The back cover is from lovely piece

of recycled pin tucked cotton blouse.

and the tie which wraps around the whole book

is made from some old  worn and torn chair webbing

and sari silk.

You can see the buttons from the blouse here.

The many layers which build up the picture

more rust

and finally the binding!

I do hope this little lace book brings the necessary inspiration

to help you Liz and anyone else feeling inclined

to create one of these.

I do know one of these days I had better put this together

as an exercise in learning for all!

♥♥♥
I am linking up with Doni (thank you Doni!)
at www.faithgracecrafts.blogspot.com
for Pearls and Lace Thursday
and 
Becky at
www.timewashed.com
for Time Washed Wednesdays
Thanks also Becky for this!
♥♥♥

I know many of you are yearning for Spring as

some of us are welcoming Autumn - whatever

is your season let it fill your heart 

with the gratitude of life!

xxx Suzy