Ruth Rae ~

"He Loveth My Soul"


This weeks theme is vintage and for it I pulled my inspiration from my victorian jet mourning jewelry collection along with a antique mourning dress that I own.

I used black crepe from a part of the mourning dress that is starting to rot away and stitched it directly onto a large shipping tag that I painted black.

With a needle and pearl cotton I attached bits and pieces of jet trim from my collection. I adore the soft brown color that old black fades to ~

I used a pice of old trim that still had some of the fabric it was taken from along with the old threads still attached to the trim.

I attached a small china head doll onto a old steel cut beaded shoe buckle along with the title words from the hymnal: "He Loveth My Soul"


~ Ruth Rae