Challenge

This book cover is for a challenge set at our local Embroiderer's Guild this month. The challenge is to make a book cover for our favourite book. My favourite book (well one of them) is The Jewel in the Crown and I also love Indian embroidery so I put the two together and this is what I came up with. It started off to be something entirely different with elepahnts and all sorts of images, but it just sort of evolved into this simple quilted shape with lots of gold machine embroidery and sari ribbon. I extended the ribbon so it doubles as as a book carrier as well as a dust jacket.