Sunday, April 1, 2012

Something Boro-ed, Something Blue

More eggs - it's that time of year. I got this book in the mail last week from Japan,

so I thought I'd make an egg using a few of my indigo fabrics with other snippets. I have further stitching I want to do on it, but the surface is covered - a little challenging because of the uneven shape of an egg.


And here's one of the other pieces from the vat today - not sharply defined but I can fix that another time:



Making a whole basket full of cloth eggs might be nice...

2 comments:

deanna7trees said...

just love your tattered egg.

Yvonne said...

Thanks, Deanna! The texture sure is a contrast to the usual smoothness of an egg shell. I've put the two indigo eggs into a nest I have to mark this first 'empty nest' Easter without my two sons living at home.