Music by Holy Moly and the Crackers.
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| Finished work, photographed sitting in the lid of the box made for it. |
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| The back of the work needed to be sealed as well. Considered that on another occasion I won't mind painting a different picture on the back - to make it harder and a little more interesting. |
Since finishing the jigsaw I have made it a display box for it - based on a wonderful box that contained a circular cheese board...it almost fitted the jigsaw, but not quite! So I had to make my own.
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| This is the little prototype I made to try the design out. Covered it in a photocopy of a photo of the jigsaw. |
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| The full quote is: 'Life is the flower, of which love is the honey' said by Victor Hugo, supposedly. |
And then while thinking of a way to create an information sheet containing both the outline of the jigsaw - for those wishing to remake the jigsaw - and to tell you the flowers and insects on it, my husband mentioned seeing artisan film canisters in an art gallery which had a padded filling to stop the contents from moving around. This seemed like a perfect coupling of the two needs - so I've made a padded/quilted insert which has the outline and names embroidered on it. I managed to do this fairly quickly by using the wonders of a sewing machine which had an embroidery foot attached.
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| Calico put over the outline on a light box. The outline was photocopied from the Illustrator file on many bits of paper, due to a size issue. |
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| I really enjoyed the free hand embroidery - it will look shockingly amateur but it did the job. |
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| Waiting to be cut to size and neatened - and in need of a bit of bias-binding. |
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| And a quick look at the Bee Box. Almost finished, sans glue and a magnet to work as the catch. |
All that nearly complete...and now onto the Bee Book!!
