'Doctor Who' Felt Journal Cover- Part 2 of 2

Creating a pre-felt Dalek...

...who is not nearly as cuddly as this photograph might suggest!!



Looking through the plastic resist...

...to what will become the front side of my journal cover. 

Mid-way through felting...

 

...and the finished cover(!)

 

A hand-embroidered "Police Box" tops the TARDIS...



...and a Dalek guards the back of my journal.

"Exterminate!!" 

 

Adding a grosgrain ribbon bookmark...

 

...with a "D.W." medallion fashioned from snippets of white and black leather.

 

Even though the extraterrestrial race of mutants known as the Daleks...

...are utterly without compassion, and know only hate...

...I can't help having a bit of a soft spot in my heart for them, anyway. :)

I chose to create a 'New Paradigm' variant for my journal...

...because the casing of the 'Scientist Dalek' is ORANGE!! Grin.

To make a themed bookmark for holding my place...

...I stitched two squares of soft leather (one with sewn-on initials)...

...to a brightly-colored length of grosgrain ribbon.

Now no one could possibly go home with this journal by mistake!! :)

'Doctor Who' Felt Journal Cover- Part 1 of 2

Making pre-felt sections by layering and patting wool roving into place...

 

...then wetting them out and quickly rolling them up in an absorbent towel.

 

My sketches work out many of the details...

...before I ever put scissors to pre-felt! :)

 

Cutting blue pre-felt into a TARDIS shape...



...then adding needle-felted window and door-panel details... 

...and markings to suggest window panes and door signage. 

Since I was working inside-out, I flipped the TARDIS over onto the surface of my resist...

...and added a couple of bolts of lightening! 

 

Two-tone cotton sliver is used to create the wormhole.

 

Apologies to those among my readers who are not Whovians...

...or for whom this fictional universe is of no interest...

...since my 'inner geek' will certainly be on display in this post and the next! :)

After making so many journal covers for others, lately...

...(and I haven't even shown you all of them, yet)...

...I just wanted to finally make one for myself!

Using some hastily constructed pre-felt...

...I cut out a TARDIS-shaped box and added needle-felted details.

I cut commercial pre-felt into lightening bolts...

...and coiled cotton sliver into the suggestion of a wormhole.

Next time: the finished piece...

...complete with a special ribbon-and-leather bookmark!