To Stitch A Mockingbird.

While hunting around online recently after someone alerted to me to prints of my Mockingbird cover being sold ‘elsewhere’, I found this.

Kristin H aka Sewtechnicolour is a US-based needlesmith, and she had stitched a version of my cover! How could I not get in touch with her? On bouncing around her blog a bit it became apparent we both share a love of books and book covers - her blog is littered with them along with myriad creations in beautiful fabrics and yarns. She picks covers she likes and uses its colours to inspire a new piece of work - nice - and in fact her first blog of 2014 is her list of ‘most-anticipated books’, together with a patchwork of their covers. She writes well too.

Oh and she loves British TV series - I really think we should be friends! In real life our chances are slim, for now I’m happy to make her acquaintance online!

Here’s what she did with my cover. How nice to be ‘re-interpreted’ again!

And, you must go to her blog!
http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.co.uk

Boo-tiful Creatures.

My colleague and friend at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Robert Sharl was watching 'Beautiful Creatures' with his daughter over the weekend, when he noticed what he thought was my To Kill A Mockingbird book cover in a classroom scene.

And lo, on rewinding and screen-capturing, it is!

I haven't seen the film but it appears in a classroom scene where each student has a copy. A quick Wikipedia (and conversation with Rob) confirms that the books isn't an accidental choice; the film draws parallels with Harper Lee's story of the feared and mis-trusted Boo Radley in his shadowy existence, and that of the Casters, a breed of human capable of casting certain kinds of banned and rare spells, like changing the weather and casting illusions.

Described by Rob as 'flawed but enjoyable', as opposed to Twilight's 'po-faced horribleness', I think I have to watch it now! For the costumes alone...have you seen some of those dresses?

(Image © Alcon Entertainment)