Posts Tagged Japanese
Proud Teacher
Posted by tialys in Arts and Crafts, Life in France on February 13, 2011
At the Patchwork Group yesterday, two of my ‘pupils’ had finished their hexagonal boxes. Andrée has made hers in a marine blue colour with floral interior and now shows newcomers how it’s done in much better french than mine – but, as she is French, I’m not too ashamed. Sandra has made hers in a lovely ditsy floral pattern with gold highlights and, inside, a marbled pink. Apologies for the photo quality but I forgot my kick ass one and only had my casio. When they have all finished I am going to take a lovely one of a pile of all the finished boxes.
This is the one I made as the instructional model – is that even a proper term?
A bit of a Japanese touch going on here with this striking fabric from Kokka.
Etui Box – Japanese Style
Posted by tialys in Arts and Crafts on February 5, 2010
Inspired by these gorgeous Japanese themed fabrics, which I found here in France, and my friend Maggie who is a Japanophile (must look up the right word for that!) I decided to make one of my Little Housekeeper étui boxes with a Japanese theme. I wanted to make a pagoda but couldn’t even begin to imagine how I would make a pagoda-shaped roof to fit one of my boxes without engaging in extremely complicated and time consuming calculations and engineering which would mean spending even more time than I already spend making one of these little houses. So, I faffed about with the fabric on the roof and used it on the bias, trying to suggest a sort of overlapping and overhanging effect.