Thursday, July 7, 2011

Bible/Journal Covers with Printed Interior Fabric

These are the 6 Bible Covers I've been working on for the past few days. It's a joy to work on these, as the customer requested an "add-on": printed fabric for the interior. It really made them look so much sweeter :)
First of all, I've to photograph the chosen fabrics against all the possible coordinating fabric & let my customer view them, so that she can visualize better how they might look like together.

However, she decided to simply let me choose on her behalf.

I have stripes, dots, & gingham in various colours, & happily paired them up.

Next, comes the hard work, which is cutting the fabric. It's actually the most undesirable aspect (to me) of making anything ^^ And, to be "time-effective", I proceed to cut all the 6 fabric/coordinating prints/padding/interface etc.... all at once.

It really drained me, & I cant work on it anymore after facing those fabric the whole afternoon.

However, once they're all cut, ironed, & pinned, working thru them is a breeze from then on. I love seeing how the various combination slowly turned out. And felt such great satisfaction to see all the colours/prints come alive as a newly made Bible/Journal Cover.

From time to time, I do have customers requesting printed coordinating fabric instead of the usual plain solids I use, at an additional charge of $4 onwards (depending on the size of the item made).

Seeing how beautiful they always turned out, I've decided to list this option up as an "Add-ons" from now onwards.

These grey elephants, were of fabric sent to me by another customer who cant find any suitable ones from my selection. And, as she dont like the "criss-cross" stitches (quilt effect), she requested that I do away with it, AND the pocket at the back.

It's the first time I'm doing it like this, so I've got to be mindful of planning the fabric/co-ordination & direction, hehe... but hey, whatever suits the need of the customer! :)

Again, she finds difficulty in getting a suitable colour for her grey elephants. So, I took out several possible coordinating prints, & suggests that she uses one of them instead.

True enough, she was attracted to one of the combination, which is this Sunspots in Tangerine, an Amy Butler's fabric.

What do you think of the result?

I TOTALLY am in love with this combination :) And this has proved to be one of my favourite so far.

We cant quite dismiss any colour can we? Even the "dull-est" & most boring colour we though exist, can truly transform into something amazing, when it's brought to "life" with the help of another colour.

Want a custom made Bible/Journal Cover for yourself? Pls contact me at The Laughing House or email me at pingsping@yahoo.com for a quote.

Thank you :)
Winniel

2 comments:

  1. All of the covers turned out so nice! Your sewing is always so crisp and perfect. Thanks for taking the time to share this post.

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  2. Thank you so much for your kind support ZiaMaria :)

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