This morning I tidied my glass cabinet, the one I have in my dining room. It's allegedly for 'special' work, mostly my delicate artist books but you know how it is.....over time everything gets put in there.
I'm actually sorry I didn't take 'before' photos but never mind.
Here it is in all its tidy glory.
And just so you know, the domestic goddessing continues, the hoover is out, the ironing board is out, the house is in disarray but who cares,
the glass cabinet is tidy.
I have been trying desperately to get the lining finished for my stitched notebook wrap. The lining is the all white piece. It is purely paper, paper and buttonhole stitch. Each raw edge is being finished with buttonhole stitch and there is around eight inches left to sew.
Why am I desperate? Because I am excited about what comes next.
The lining will be attached to the front cover of the wrap which is the central, long piece and there will be gaps where the reverse of each piece is visible. That gives me an opportunity to add more layers, more stitch, that's what excites me.
Once all that is done I can attach my wrap to the cover of my stitched notebook....
This little hand made notebook measures just 3 inches by 3 inches. It doesn't really qualify as an artist book yet as the pages are still blank but that's what it will be when I have finished titivating.
After putting the little book together I started the cover wrap rather than begin work on the pages. No particular reason except I wanted to. Once this is attached the pages will get a little attention.
Cast your mind back to this post...a wrap for my stitched notebook. The front is now fully embellished, embroidered and adorned. Now it's time for the lining.
In the first image the lining is visible centrally, it's the all white piece, torn paper strips placed together which I intend to secure with buttonhole lace.
There is quite a bit of embroidery still needed on that before I can secure it to the reverse of the wrap and add it to my stitched notebook.
Back to my little notebook, the little design notebook which accompanies my 'embroiderers cloth'. (I'll post some images of my embroiderers cloth at the end of this post for those of you who haven't got a clue what I'm talking about)
This page has a pocket at its edge. I never could resist a pocket. A couple of pages back in this one I doubted this little notebook would take much more. I was wrong. I'm going to keep going.
As promised, a few selected images of my embroiderers cloth which is still very much in progress.
Happy Monday everyone, how we doing? I've had a busy few days consumed with my 'embroiderers cloth', a little domestitcity and some garden stuff (as an observer, can't claim any credit for the hard work)
I've also been considering notebooks and artist books. Working on paper always draws me back if only to look at what's gone before. Having said that I finished this little bit of notebook stitching over the weekend before looking at some images of past artist books for inspiration.
I may be thinking about creating more little books in bags soon.
There have been a few queries about 'work on your own' classes over the past week. With that in mind I have relisted a couple of those in the shop along with a newly stitched hand embroidered needlecase.
This piece measures 28 x 8 inches and will be a wrap for my little design notebook. So far only this edge has been embroidered. It took quite some time to piece the papers for this and then to baste it all together.
I won't be able to work on this constantly. This will be a 'pick up as and when' piece but that's ok.
I posted week twelve of my free embroidery class yesterday. There are two more weeks left of that and six weeks after the final post I will be removing those videos so you may wish to catch up now. Just go here for those posts.
Tomorrow will be week two of my latest embroidery class, 'an embroiderers cloth'. Access to all 'paid for' online learning is forever.....you have all the time in the world for that one and can read more about it here.
I'm gathering pieces for the next page of my little stitched notebook. It may almost be time to call this one finished as I'm not sure the little paperback book can take much more.
Once I have stitched these pieces in I will make a decision.
The girls in class are gathering all manner of pretty ribbons and fabrics for their 'embroiderers cloth'. The Flickr group looks amazing after only two days, their motivation is exceptional...thank you!
It's not too late to join us, you can read all about it here.
This little notebook is filling up quickly. The weight of it in my hands is beautiful. I love how it splays open, settling on a random page when I leave it to lie.
Am I allowed to sigh as I play with this? We are often reluctant to express the pleasure we get from our own work but I'm going to allow myself to sigh and sigh again.
My new class, 'an embroiderers cloth' begins tomorrow for eight weeks. There will be embroidery, buttons, toggles, edge titivation, needle keeps, pin keeps.....if you would like to read more about it just go here.
I now have a date with a beach and a puppy. Have a lovely Sunday x
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