"Gypsies Past" - a new Fabric and Lacebook

While many of our blogging friends are starting to enjoy

the bright blue skies and soft pastels of Spring

here in Australia we are heading to

the more deeper and richer

tones of Autumn

and

today I am showing some of these deep rich

tones and shades in the form of

"Gypsies Past"

 a recent fabric and lace book -

a custom order completed

recently.

Many layers including vintage tapestries,

variegated dyed silks, sari ribbons,
coins and braid and buttons
and beads and 

 laces - some dyed and some

left as is

 have been well selected to adorn the

gypsy women in these pages 

some telling fortunes and divining the future

while others hiding their shame beneath

the beauty of coins.

There is just something about these pages

which transform you to another place -

to another time when life

was not as romantic

and as easy going

as the pictures convey! 

This was a special page included for

my client's love of crazy

quilting again with vintage fabrics

and machine embroidered

by me.

A pocket created here for 

a Gypsy's Love Song - in words

and in music

(in another pocket!)

  

for Greenwood Girl.

(I have to confess how fond I am of this beautiful image).

The book is full and the pages finished!

as the journey ends for these "Gypsies Past".

"When the heart weeps

for what it has lost

the spirit laughs

for what it has found"

...........Sufi proverb

Thank you all dear friends for your kind comments -

they continue to inspire me onward!

xxx Suzy