Compendium of Curiosities #19 - Frayed Fabric

I am sorry that I had to miss Challenge #18 but it is a bit tricky at Christmas fitting everything in, especially with visits and visitors!  But it was certainly fabulous to wake up on New Year's Day to find that I won on Challenge #17 - my thanks to the Curiosity Crew!

Challenge #19 is all about Frayed Fabric and you can find the details of the technique on Page 66 of Tim's Compendium of Curiosities III which you can buy direct from Tim (signed).

Before Christmas we had a wonderful Secret Santa swap at A Vintage Journey and I was lucky enough to be drawn by the super talented Brenda of Bumblebees and Butterflies.  Brenda made me a fabulous book to hold my Tim Tags in (she knows me well!).  Brenda kindly left the cover blank in case I wanted to add to it myself - so I have used Tim's Frayed Fabric technique to cover it.  I hope Brenda approves.....

If you would like to see the whole of the book that Brenda made me, you can see it HERE.  It is stunning so I wanted to do justice to the cover.  It started out like this:

And now it looks like this:

I know my stitches are a bit wonky in places but I think that just adds to the character (yeah, right), but Tim does tell us to embrace imperfection, so I did!

I cannot share the technique with you, as that would not be fair to Tim, but I loved working with this beautiful fabric again!  Apologies for the light in the photos, I have not quite figured out how to use my new light box properly yet... it came without instructions..... and our days here are quite gloomy.

I added a couple of pieces of Ephemera from one of Tim's Ephemera card packs along with the Idea-ology metal arrow and fawcet piece.  I also added an Idea-ology Fragment and Label Letters to form the date underneath.

Tim and Mario are offering a wonderful parcel of Tim goodies to one person, selected by the Curiosity Team and the sponsor for this challenge is Inspiration Emporium who are, as always, offering a fantastic prize of $50 to one randomly selected individual.

This piece also represents my DT piece for Inspiration Journal where the challenge this month is 'Fresh Start' where we want you to just create - the sky's the limit!  You have until 31 January to get your entry in and our generous sponsor Inspiration Emporium are offering a generous $50 to one randomly selected individual.  You have got to be in it to win it!  We hope to see you there!

As always, thanks for looking!  See you again soon.  Hugs, Anne xx