I've done a little more on the 'Becky Attenbourough Jacket'

Whilst trying to squeeze time in for working on my beautiful daughter Rebecca's recycled 'Becky Attenborough Jacket' is like trying to teach my little dog to sing, almost impossible, but all the better when it finally happens......
I've been able to get a bit more done but I'm not sure it's going to make her birthday, more like Christmas at this rate.

  

The back is a 'Tree of Life' piece, the tree has bark made up of strawberry and barbed wire fabrics (reminds me of her when she was a teenager), the owl has been included as she is quite wise and has been since a little mite. Plenty more to do on the tree but the photo shows where I'm going I think. 

 

I wanted a couple of medals for her, one is for her heroics in looking after her little brother. These were many and varied but one particular time springs to mind.... we were living in Zimbabwe for a time and John (her little brother) had a favourite pastime of catching lizards, on one notable occasion he thought (who knows how 9 year old boys brains work?) that it would be a good idea to kiss one, a largish one. Mistake. It caught hold of his lip and hung on through his screaming and running about. Despite tugging at it neither of them could dislodge it so Rebecca filled the bathroom sink and plunged her brother's head into it, luckily the lizard had to let go or drown so a wet John was saved. A babysitter was in attendance but Rebecca at the age of 10 was oh so much more sensible.

  

 

Another badge is one for her love of cats, this is for one cat in particular, her beloved Oscar.
Rebecca also adores the colour purple so had to include a little splash of it for her.....

recyling an old safari/army jacket for my daughter...

Now I'm finished with the Sketchbook Project I needed a new plaything and so have decided to start to recycle/upcycle an old jacket I found in a junk shop. My beautiful daughter Rebecca will be finishing her degree this month & I felt she needed a suitable jacket for the environmental scientist~hippy chick she is, so this is for her, a 'Becky Attenborough Jacket' .

I'm doing this without preplanning as I want it to be as off the wall as possible. I'm picking up/putting together anything thats reminds me of her or of times we have spent together and I wanted it to be free and quick. In a way it will become a walking sketchbook. Watch this space for the coming additions to it!

This is an old piece of fabric from scraps bin at uni, I do not know the original manufacturer but like the wildlife reference so had to include it.  I'm going bonkers with the stitiching, I think my ethos is 'what happens is what happens'.

 I'm going for randomness with the stitching, hand and machine, more of one of my favourite things 'controlled chaos'.