Beth's Birthday Card

After finishing a baby quilt, I cleaned my sewing room.  Really cleaned.  I even wiped baseboards.  Part of the motivation was still my fight with how to store scraps (any fabric less than 1/4 of a yard.  In my travels I acquired a 3 drawer plastic storage unit.  I dumped out the things that were in it and used it for scraps. 

• Top Drawer:  Orange, yellow and brown scraps
• Middle Drawer:  Blue and green scraps.
• Bottom Drawer:  Red, pink and purple scraps

Then I tackled the pile of things that I have stashed for cards.  A lot of it is trims.  I went through that pile and ended up with a large amount for Goodwill.  I use rick rack and ribbon in my cards.  The resale shops and the rummage sales package them in bags.  What comes along is lots of bias tape.  That is something I don't find as visually interesting.  Another item I don't use is ribbon that is shirred.  It is designed to be used on little girl dresses and make ruffled looking lace edges.  It doesn't lay flat and I have given up thinking I will use it.

One of the things I found was a ziploc bag holding a sample piece I created in an Improv Embroidary Class in Houston.  The sample is just that - practice.  I knew I would not continue that piece.  I decided to use bits of it for Beth's birthday card.

The tree is a piece of dyed cheesecloth.  The class must of come with a small set of materials.  The background piece is a moire of some kind of synthetic.