Watercolor Polkadot Button book, originally uploaded by Leah Virsik.
I was cleaning up my office and put away my sewing machine and ironing board and I know now that I can’t put them away at least for long. I missed them way too much. I have three more little books like this coming together really soon. They are so much fun to make. They’ve come out of AEDM and my mail art postcards.
Art Every Day Month has been such a blessing. I want to make work that I need to make, to connect with it, to find out what it needs, where it wants to be… and it really feels like I’m doing that. I’ve passed the point of no return in many ways. So much of it is just trusting that I’m on that path. Today I was looking for and found some great yarns I had purchased several years ago from Article Pract. They’re going to be used in the other books I’m making. It’s funny how things connect. The scraps of fabric that I’ve had over the years fit right in to the projects I’m working on now.
I had a lot of fun teaching Erin and Dave how to make books. Tom came in and took photos of us. I got a lot of good feedback from them. It’s such an emotional process for me… to teach. I’m quite attached and want things to work out for my students. But at the same time I also know with my own process that classes can be valuable for different reasons in different ways and so often not for the product I produced in the class. So I think more practice teaching and less attachment will help.
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Cool little book. Funny how you are really mixing media – painting, book binding, and sewing
Thanks! It is funny and it’s interesting how naturally it’s coming.
I love how this turned out. Your binding is art in itself. Thank you for all you have shared.
yes, you are on the path!!
and i absolutely love this little book. gorgeous!
such a stunning book…i have enjoyed the journey
Susie, Leah and ELK thank you so much for your comments! I really appreciate them.
Leah,
You book is wonderful. I love the colors and the originality of it. And I agree ADEM has been a blessing. I have never created so much in my life.
Thanks Sandy! So glad to hear you’ve enjoyed AEDM as well.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!
Thanks Kelly! It would be fun to show you how to make it. Maybe I could come out to Florida sometime and teach a class out there.