Quiet counting in the park

 Another quarter, another reveal this time on the theme of "A walk in the park". We are lucky enough to live next to a small park so that was an obvious place to start when thinking about what to do for this challenge.

 At the same time I had been toying with the idea of making a Quiet Book for the gorgeous grandsons, so had the lightbulb moment of combining the two projects to make "Counting in the Park"!

The book has six pages each of which are related to an element of our neighbouring park, so we have one model yacht, two swans, three windows on the clubhouse, four dogs, five flowers and six ladybirds.

 The flip side of the Quiet Book pages are made with blocks of sun-printed fabrics surrounded by numbers.

The sun printed items are also of things that you would find in the park i.e. one feather, two flowers, three leaves, four (paper-cut!) butterflies and five fungi. I drew the line at using dead butterflies for my sun prints so resorted to paper stencils instead! As you can see that did make a difference in the outcome of the final print. The butterflies, fungi, leaves and flowers were all printed for the same amount of time in the same place on the same day but the level of detail transferred from the flowers is much higher than from the leaves, which was a surprise.

My grandson found the feather as we walked in his local park and 'helped' with the sun printing so it is particularly appropriate that it is the front cover for the book.

Head on over to Celtic Thistle Stitches to see the pages in more detail and read more about my quiet book.

Once again, I had great fun planning and creating my Quiet Book for this challenge and I am really looking forward to seeing what my fellow Endeavourers have come up with.  I am sure that there will be lots of " I wish I had thought of that!" moments as I read their posts :)

Thank you Catherine and Janine for giving me the opportunity to push my creativity further yet again!