dreamflower02 ([info]dreamflower02) wrote in [info]shire_kitchen,
2010-03-05 10:15:00
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A special announcement!

Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Challenge 2010

This will be the SIXTH Annual Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Challenge! And this year there will be something different!

I will be announcing the Challenge shortly. But I want to let everyone know ahead of time, this year there will be an incentive to enter the challenge.

I have made a special Shire Kitchen apron. This apron is a unique piece of wearable art! Every participant in the Challenge will get an opportunity to win the apron! A name will be chosen at random from among all the writers who enter a story in the Challenge, and that person will win the apron!

Pictures of the apron are behind the cut:


Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Apron Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Apron
Front view of apron. I used a combination of fabric collage, fabric paint, calligraphy, and both hand and machine embroidery to embellish the apron, which is reversible, and has a large double front pocket and yellow grosgrain ribbon ties at the neck and waist.
Shire kitchen apron-- reversed side Shire kitchen apron-- reversed side
The reversed side is only embellished on the double pocket, with hand and machine embroidery, and fabric collage.
Here's the front, laid flat. Here's the front, laid flat.
Here it is laid flat. The recipe, which I calligraphed directly onto the fabric with a permanent fabric pen, is [info]'s recipe for Apple Syrup Cake, which may be found with her delightful story "Cakes and Apples" from the 2005 Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Challenge, and used with her kind permission.
Lower left front Lower left front
The screencap of Bilbo and Gandalf in the kitchen is the one used as the [info]shire_kitchen icon! The pot of Rosemary is hand-embroidered, and the fabric-print of the hobbit hole is a photo of one of my painted rocks. Both pictures have been embellished with hand embroidery.
Close up of upper apron Close up of upper apron
You can see that one of the ribbon ties is embellished with a small fabric yo-yo and two little buttons-- a carrot and a beet. The collaged photo, printed on fabric is of Bag Eng's pantry. The image is from [info]'s Tiny Bag End, and is used with her permission. The apple is fabric paint. You can also see the three little apple buttons at the top of the pocket.
Right side Right side
The Thyme is hand-embroidered. (the patterns for both the Thyme and the Rosemary were from "Aunt Martha's Transfers"). On the pocket, the photo of Bag End's dining room are from [info]'s Tiny Bag End, and used with her permission. The mushrooms are fabric paint. You can also see at the waist tie, a small fabric yo-yo, embellished with a tiny corn-cob button.
Front pocket close-up Front pocket close-up
Here you can see the pocket more clearly.





I hope that this will inspire a number of you out there to participate in the coming challenge! Keep an eye out for the announcement of the theme, rules and deadline!
Tags: crafts, lotr, shire kitchen recipe fic challenge, wearable art

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[info]frodobaggins252

March 5 2010, 16:26:49 UTC 2 years ago

You did a lovely job! Wish I could write so I could join in with the challenge -- If someone wants to write but cannot come up with a recipe for their fic, let me know -- I've got LOTS of hobbity recipes!

**hugs, tea, and seedcakes to all**

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 22:49:38 UTC 2 years ago

Yay for recipes!

*grin* *sips tea and nibbles seedcake*

[info]shirebound

March 5 2010, 16:29:08 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  March 5 2010, 22:33:16 UTC

Someone would be very fortunate indeed to win that.

You have mushrooms on your cabinets! :)

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 22:51:21 UTC 2 years ago

I hope whoever wins it will enjoy it!

When we first moved here, we went to a used furniture store-- we were looking for something totally different, but I fell in love with that cabinet as soon as I laid eyes on it! The DH got it for me then!

[info]meneleth

March 5 2010, 16:50:52 UTC 2 years ago

That is an incredible work of art. I'm amazed that you can bear to part with it!

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 22:52:45 UTC 2 years ago

It was lots of fun to make! I'll have pictures of it to remind me of it, and hopefully it will inspire lots of good stories! The stories will make it worth it.

[info]rubynye

March 5 2010, 18:43:59 UTC 2 years ago

I am astounded by the gorgeous apron you made, and delighted to be a part of this project!

*contemplates hobbits*

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 22:53:18 UTC 2 years ago

*Very Big Grin*

Thank you!

[info]mews1945

March 5 2010, 19:50:12 UTC 2 years ago

Beautiful. I wish I could come up with a fic for the challenge.

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 23:09:16 UTC 2 years ago

Maybe you can! There's plenty of time!

[info]ansostuff

March 5 2010, 20:30:06 UTC 2 years ago

That's a lovely apron, very worthy of the winner. :)

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 23:09:29 UTC 2 years ago

Thank you!

[info]lame_pegasus

March 5 2010, 22:27:43 UTC 2 years ago

I might be sorely tempted by that enormously lovely apron. *smiles*

[info]dreamflower02

March 5 2010, 23:09:58 UTC 2 years ago

*grins* Oh, I hope you are very tempted! *grins more*

[info]linwesingollo

March 5 2010, 23:29:14 UTC 2 years ago

That apron is a work of art. Any hobbit'd be lucky to win it.
I also love the mushroom cabinets.

hm..I do believe this is the first time I've posted in this comm. *waves*

[info]dreamflower02

March 6 2010, 04:07:33 UTC 2 years ago

*waves back*

The community is not usually very busy until the fic challenge comes up! But welcome! I hope maybe you might consider participating!

[info]claudia603

March 6 2010, 02:52:13 UTC 2 years ago

How gorgeous!!! I will certainly participate if I can find inspiration! :)

[info]dreamflower02

March 6 2010, 03:50:58 UTC 2 years ago

*grin* Oh, I hope you do! I'd love to have you participate!

[info]ceshaughnessy

March 26 2010, 19:45:56 UTC 2 years ago

LOVE the apron *and* the mushroom cabinets!

[info]dreamflower02

April 4 2010, 19:23:39 UTC 2 years ago

(((hugs))) Well, I hope you get a chance to win the apron!

[info]pearltook1

April 5 2010, 13:41:14 UTC 2 years ago

How do you find the time to do all that you do?!

The apron is lovely, Dreamflower. :-)

Pearl
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