Take It Further October

I'm a bit late but I've finally finished my piece for the October TIF challenge. The original challenge was discussed here and I said at the time that I had an idea for something connected with the chaos.

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Instead of starting with new fabric I went through all my bit bags and used my embellisher to make this new piece of fabric out of all the scraps of cloth and fibres. The base was odd pieces of a thin wadding type of cloth which I needlefelted together and then embellished felts, sheers, organzas, cottons, wool fibres, threads and prefelted offcuts onto. To bring the piece together I covered the whole fabric with a brown coloured chiffon scarf and embellished all over from the front and back until I felt that the surface was balanced.

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I decided to make a bookwrap with the finished fabric and decorated it with beads, finishing off with blanket stitch.

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The lining is a type of plastic stiffener material which I have painted with Lumiere paints. Fortunately I was able to stitch through this lining. You may have spotted the deliberate mistake! I thought I would use velcro to close the wrap but unfortunately I stitched it on before I put the lining in so there had to be a little judicious snipping to reveal the velcro pad! Ooops! Well, I am a beginner! (I have since blanket stitched round the hole you can see so it's a bit tidier). This is now going to be a Christmas gift for one of my friends.