Message from Hazel P
During lockdown I was busy making a surprise photo book for my daughter’s 40th birthday in August.
The cover of the book was an image of a thank you card I really loved and so had saved as a pdf.
Originally I thought of making a patchwork folder using fabric off cuts from her childhood dresses – but I didn’t have enough to make it interesting, and couldn’t bear to cut up the only bought dress I still had.
So I sent away to Prinfab in Faversham Kent to have a Fat Quarter printed on medium weight calico.
I decided to make a protective cover for the book, and chose to do padded machine embroidery, but with a smooth enough finish for it to be slotted on a bookshelf.
The added benefit was that it wasn’t obvious at first sight what the present was.