pattern in an old quilt

Baloo Bookmarks

"And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeone Wolf-Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word."

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

How much I love "The Jungle Book"!
(... and I had been very surprised to learn that the book is telling quite serious tales, like fables, and in that differs a lot from the 
Disney animated movie.)

Here are some bookmarks I made for kids of all ages, in remembrance of Baloo the good Bear from the "Jungle Book".

"The man's cub - the man's cub?" he said. "I speak for the man's cub. There is no harm in a man's cub.  I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others. I myself will teach him."

Blue Flower Wallhanging

(wallhanging, hand sewn and hand quilted, three layers of thin cotton, 

63 x 63 cm, 24,8" x 24,8")

I got the idea for this design when I was leafing through my sketch-book,

I stopped at the picture of this beautiful intricate quilt, I don't know anymore where I found this, at some point I had cut out and glued in this beautiful depiction, but I don't remember any details.

My piece is not nearly as complex, but it is what I wanted it to be, so I'm very ok with the result.