I'm not one to keep doing the same things over and over again. I like change. It's stimulating. I wanted to make the style that I was then working in expand to fit our heroine!

As well as illustrating, I design fabrics and frequently find myself surrounded
by extraordinarily beautiful vintage fabrics, some of them over one hundred years old! How wonderful, I thought, to include some of these in my pictures.

Do you know in which stories Sam used these?

What did Sam use to make this picture? And in which story was it used?

Poor Boobela - endlessly out growing her clothes - obviously had to be creative when dressing herself. Wearing huge sashes to hide the gap made by wearing an outgrown T-shirt.

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