Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees....Summertime ENTRIES ONLY 7/1-7/7/2021

Summer brings Pride parades/festivals, and Pride parades/festivals bring RAINBOWS! :rainbow: :rainbow_flag:
There is already an abundance of clever and beautiful messages out there, and I am basic, so here is how I celebrated Pride Month:


About 75 colors of embroidery thread, and I had to keep them hanging down because I love the look of them! The ready-made rainbows are old elastic, and I covered the ends with clouds (little circles cut out of cotton fabric scrap). Beads courtesy of @Magpie (of course!)

Back cover and spine:


(Gay sailor patch made for me by RovingAnarchist in a swap on the old site. And how could that NOT be paired with a patch featuring the lower half of a Rainbow Brite character?)

The insides got covered in a spree of rainbow gelli-printing.

It was originally going to be an accordion book, but looking at the pamplet-binding @AIMR used in a recent project, I tore the accordion apart and redid it to stitch each page to the cover.

The inside covers, being the backside of the stitchings, I covered with wonderful slow-stitch patches I received from @LadybugsAndBees :

:rainbow::rainbow_flag:

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