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Sarah Monsen

Title

Goodnight Sweet Dreams

Materials and Techniques

Cotton fabric, glass beads, embroidery thread, davey board (cover)
watercolor, watercolor paper (pages); twill tape, waxed linen, satin ribbon (binding/spine)

Being tucked into bed, stuffed animals, bedtime stories, and giving a kiss goodnight. These are the things that brought me comfort when it was time to sleep, this was the ritual that my parents developed for us to try and stave off nightmares.

This book combines this ritual, those things of comfort, and the things that follow. A quilted cover to represent a blanket, a handmade doll to represent my mountain of stuffed animals, and twenty one poems each with their own illustration to represent bedtime stories. Each of these illustrations and poems are pulled from childhood dreams that I collected from those around me and recalled from my own memories.

Up close shot of a smiling jester doll. The face is white, the eyes are closed and have painted black lines going down the center of each, the doll has pink cheeks, bells on the end of a pointed collar and half light blue half dark blue twin tail jester hat on.

Watercolor and ink illustration of the jester dolls legs, standing in a nearly closed doorway carrying a crow stuffed animal. There is a beam of light that highlights where the door is opened. The primary colors used are blue, yellow, purple, gold, and black.

Watercolor and ink illustration of a child’s room with the jester doll tucked into a bed covered in stuffed animals, there is a line of light that goes across the jester's face and the room. The primary colors used are blue, yellow, purple, gold, and black.

In process photo of the book before being glued and sewn together. The cover lies flat under pages bound with twill tape, as well as two folded pieces of dark blue paper and a spool of waxed linen and a curved sewing needle.

In process photo. Shows the binding method used to bind the pages and davey board of the cover. The pages are bound together using a long stitch method over twill tape. Which is threaded through holes on the davey board and glued down.

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