The Full Moon and Challenges.....



Beaver Moon Book by Karen Carter

Here's another wonderful submission to the challenge.  Karen is an amazing fabric artist with a trail of quilts and other fiber art to her credit.  She is currently exploring handmade books and her projects are breathtaking.  Here's the one that was created using our challenge materials.  For anyone who doesn't already know, the Beaver Moon is the full moon in the month of November, described in the Farmer's Almanac this way - • Full Beaver Moon – November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.

Here's what Karen had to say about her book:  

The Beaver Moon book was inspired by Bety's fabric/foil/wire challenge, the recent beautiful full moon and a dazzlingly colorful dogwood outside my kitchen window.  I created the wire leaf shape first.  It needed a place to be useful, and the book concept seemed natural because I've been working on a couple of other books lately. The cardboard cover is a recycled upholstery sample book, minus its samples.  I don't work from a predetermined plan, and had no idea where this was going.  The suggestion of the moon phases on the upper corner of the pages came to me as I played with a piece of aluminum foil.  Fun project.  Thanks, Betsy!



cotton fabric; cardboard; metalic thread; Stonehenge paper; aluminum foil; copper wire (industrial wire stripped of its covering); fusible foil; cheap acrylic paints; waxed bookbinders thread; cotton bookbinders tape; glue; yarns of various fibers.

 

If you flip through the pages of the book, you see the phases of the moon change.  Wonderful!

 

Thanks for sending, Karen.  If there are more of you out there considering sending, please do!  Have a creative week this week!