Time cover is finished

It took over six weeks to get to a sewing machine, but my Time cover is finally finished. On Thursday, I went to my friend Dana's and between the two of us, we got the cover on my book, minus the clock.
After I finished the sewing part of the cover, I put the clock up next to the book and immediately noticed that the clock, which I really wanted to use, was made with primary colors, while the book cover was pastels and soft colors. I knew I had to do somthing. Here is what the clock front looked like before I "distressed" it. You can see how bright it is.
Thankfully, the back side had all the same colors, so I was able to experiment. I tried swiping dye ink (two different colors), bisque glaze, shoe polish, and combinations of the three on the foam clock. Before I took the photo, I left a bit of the original color for comparison.
The shoe polish won hands over fist, not necessarily for ease of application, but for the look I wanted. The white clock hands were colored with a pale blue glaze, and I dry brushed the same glaze on various parts of the clock face. It was time consuming, since I had to remove all the numbers and color them, their sides, and the inside areas where they went.

I attached the clock using E-6000, but only in the clock area, not the numbers. Here I have removed the heart and the "1" in the number 10. Anything behind the numbers will peek through, such as the words from "Turn, Turn, Turn" which was printed on shaving cream paper and sewn onto the Viva dyed paper towel. Also on this page are the words "Time flies" which can't be seen in this view, and two postage stamps.

This is a view of the back side of the book. This is where all the sewing occurred. The background was Viva paper towels, to which I sewed pieces of the hand dyed muslin made by spritzing Easter egg dyes and vinegar onto sheets of muslin. I made these nearly a year ago at my friend Kat's house with her help. Then, using her scraps, I sewed chenille, seam binding, and cotton scraps to manageable sized pieces of the muslin. The clock in the upper center of the page has brass clock hands attached with a brad, then the entire assembly was sewn on the piece. The only thing not sewn on the back is the "F" in "Passage Of Time." The "O" was made using another clock face, and it was also sewn onto the paper towel.

The most challenging part of the piece was the spine. I had embossed "Time, Time, Time" using gold embossing enamel. However, when we attached the cover to the book, we used a form of fusible webbing and IRONED it on, thus ruining the embossing. I tried to wick the embossing enamel up, but to no avail. I decided to leave it, since I'm probably the only one who it will bother :>)

So here it is, the finished cover in all its splendor and glory. I have to say, it was well worth all the frustration and effort. I believe it has that "WOW" factor I was hoping for.