Birthday Card

Here is the card I made for my friend Patty in WA. The picture quality isn't the best, but thought you'd want to see them regardless. It came out nicely, but it was all I could do to coax my machine to finish the stitching around the edges. That is because it is very thick! It stands nicely, but I will need to learn how to make a thinner fabric "sandwich" if I don't wand my poor little Janome to die. Anyway, this is the front. Three panels , 2 of them using batiked frog squares. I also used a variety of fibers and put tons of beads on them. That was time-consuming, but enjoyable. Each panel is 5 X 7 inches.Here is the back side. I used the prettiest of my silk fusion pieces. The colors are so sumptuous. This is also the reason the card is so thick- the silk fabric is hefty.
Here is a detail of the center front panel. You can see the fibers and beads well here. I had a lot of fun making this, and as usual, learned a great deal during the process. Patty knew I was making something, from the hints here on the blog, and on the WTM boards. She loved it, and is displaying it right where I pictured it in my mind when I had the idea for it. Cool!

Patty threw herself one humdinger of a 50th birthday bash. Her birthday was 7-7-07, supposedly the luckiest day of the century! It was certainly a lot of fun. I got to see lots of people I hadn't seen in a while, and catch up, while the Boy got to play with other boys, and the Papa Dude talked treehouses with other papas. It was a fun day.
LB