Robin Atkins of Beadlust shows us how to make a fabric memory box like this one, which she created to house memorabilia of her parents and showcase two of her creations for the Bead Journal Project. Each of the bead embroideries on the box top incorporates a tiny memory book. Robin says,
It’s not so much a tribute to my parents (although that’s part of it). More significantly, this box, with thousands of hand stitches and hundreds of hours in its making, represents a connection with them. In my mind and heart, each stitch binds us together – birth, memories, history, love, good-bad-ugly-quirky-beautiful, death – all that we were and are to each other symbolized by all the stitches in this box. I put me in the box too, in the form of quilted rabbits and hearts all around the inside. You’ll see.
