Heart In Hand
Canvas tote embellished with a hand sewn fabric collage
Here it is… my first fabric collage. My sewing machine still terrifies me a bit, so I opted to sew it all by hand. The original idea was to have three hands — outlines of my hand and my daughters’ hands, but that concept quickly changed when I found out how looooong it takes to hand sew! Don’t look too closely — there are tons of mistakes, but nonetheless it was a great project to work on. The finished project was given to my mom for mother’s day.
Oh, a few details to note since this project didn’t photograph very well: The heart was created from a baby wipe that I had used to clean up the table after one of my daughters’ watercolor painting sessions. The result was such a nice shade of pink, so I dried it, cut it into a heart shape and added it to the fabric with silver metallic thread. And I’ve sewn on a small clear bead in the middle of each of the white little starbursts on the yellow fabric.
May 23rd, 2005 at 9:09 am
Oh, I LOVE this! I can see how hard stitching around the hand could be, but I’m inspired to try to make one. Now, how to trace my daughter’s hand…maybe while she’s sleeping!
June 9th, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Adorable bag! I love the look of hand stitching, and opt for that method myself as I can never get the tension right on my sewing machine and always end up with snarled, broken thread. Interesting tidbit about the baby wipe! It’s the perfect color w/the others.