Note the shading on the tree trunk.
This is the most incredibly beautiful bag I have ever seen. It was displayed at the fashion show at Sewing at the Beach in Myrtle Beach a few weeks ago.
It was a class project somewhere in the South–I’m sorry I didn’t get the details.But I do know they met weekly for some time and learned a new technique at each class. That technique, then, was applied to a section of the bag. After a number of weeks, the bag was complete.
The design, workmanship and detail are just breathtaking, and more so in person than these woefully inadequate pictures can convey.
The topiary to the right of the front door features a variety of silk ribbon embroidery stitches.The life-like climbing roses over the door and across the front of the house motivated me to feed my climbers this week.
And just look at that basket of flowers! Oh, my! And in each window is a little rabbit, carefully selected and cut from novelty fabric. Benny the Bunny Butler, a button cottontail, sits at the front door, ready to greet guests. Surely a responsible party is monitoring these hares or all the blossoms would be gnawed to the ground.
The details around the tree are intriguing, from the community of bird houses to a garden art angel to a bee hive on the ground.A tiny button bird is perched in the tree, undoubtedly singing a glorious springtime tune.
Just beyond the house on the right side a guest is arriving, most likely for a quilting bee.Beneath a three dimensional straw hat, a her braid swings as she scurries through the butterflies fluttering in the air. The elaborately embroidered and beaded bag over her arm carries a thimble. At her feet rests a large tote, equal to the thimble bag in glorious, meticulous embroidery. It must be heavy with a charm squares to trade and a quilt top ready for her tiny 12-to-the-inch stitches.And probably a bag of chocolates in a zip lock.
The other long side of the bag shows another house in the same neighborhood. I’m pretty sure the quilter lives there. The Home Owners Association must demand high gardening standards, as each yard shows careful attention to well-manicured horticultural displays.
With hollyhocks, iris, morning glories and sunflowers, the braided quilter’s skilled hands must also have a green thumb or two. The pruners have been carelessly left in the yard, but the little dog seems intent on guarding it.
I feel certain the area is also a bird sanctuary.
The fourth side, a short one, is probably my favorite. Honeybees returning home seem to be queueing up to go through the colony’s security checkpoint with a TSA Bee Agent atop the big hive. A body scan seems most sensible, as a pat down on these fliers could hurt.On the side of the hive, a big stinger polices the area,surveiling the unattended pollen in the patch of wildflowers. Surely a web cam is sequestered in the lavish pot of flowers next to the hive. It teams up with the lush lavender to soften the presence of the militant safekeeping force.
I could spend a lot of time fantasizing about this bag.Meanwhile, if anyone can fill me in on the particulars of who made it, who designed it and where the class was taught, I would certainly appreciate it.
Do yourself a favor and blow up these pictures to the largest possible size so you can appreciate the detail. Now feast your eyes on this beauty!
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