Robin Atk
Memory Box
I made this Memory Box from scratch using book board, fabric, thread and beads (no glue!)...10" x 13" x 5" high... and stitched my November and July BJP pieces on the lid.
It's not so much a tribute to my parents (although that's part of it). More significantly, this box, with thousands of hand stitches and hundreds of hours in its making, represents a connection with them. In my mind and heart, each stitch binds us together - birth, memories, history, love, good-bad-ugly-quirky-beautiful, death - all that we were and are to each other symbolized by all the stitches in this box. I put me in the box too, in the form of quilted rabbits and hearts all around the inside.
I wrote a tutorial about making this type of box on my blog here: beadlust.blogspot.com/2009/08/memory-box-and-how-to-make-...
Memory Box
I made this Memory Box from scratch using book board, fabric, thread and beads (no glue!)...10" x 13" x 5" high... and stitched my November and July BJP pieces on the lid.
It's not so much a tribute to my parents (although that's part of it). More significantly, this box, with thousands of hand stitches and hundreds of hours in its making, represents a connection with them. In my mind and heart, each stitch binds us together - birth, memories, history, love, good-bad-ugly-quirky-beautiful, death - all that we were and are to each other symbolized by all the stitches in this box. I put me in the box too, in the form of quilted rabbits and hearts all around the inside.
I wrote a tutorial about making this type of box on my blog here: beadlust.blogspot.com/2009/08/memory-box-and-how-to-make-...