A Years Worth of Journals

 2020 has been a busy year, mostly making journals and I neglected to blog about them. 

So, I thought I'd finish up the week with a few that got finished.

A Walk in the Forest

Crazy  Quilting Journal

Bluebells & Daisies Journal

Wildflowers Journal

The Sultry Gypsy Journal

Vintage Sewing Journal

Sunny Morning Journal



Shabby Chic / Vintage Journal

Shabby Chic Bunny Journal

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Christmas Past

Hello again,

A little bit of slow stitching took place back in December and a textile book emerged from my efforts.  This project made it's way down to my mother for Christmas where I hope she finds some joy from it.

It was inspired by a tutorial I watched on You Tube.  Anne Brooke was sharing the construction

of a slow stitch book, made from bits and bobs of fabrics and notions.  She has many little projects

she shares with her followers, so if you get a chance, pop on over to her channel and have a look.

So I took her idea and created this...

A fabric slow stitched textured book made with all sorts of fabrics, trims and notions.  Even some pieces of my mom's wedding gown as seen on the front cover.

The cover is edged with cotton fringe and crotchet trim and tied with a hand dyed silk ribbon.

The pages within are couched with fuzzy ivory yarn to add to the texture of the book, resulting in a very soft edging.

A pretty charm dangles from the spine.

And even the back adorns a collage of pretty fabric, notions, buttons, and lace motifs.

A flip thru of the pages on this little video:

A image of my father in his younger days 

tucked into a pocket

here.

And my mom and us all at his funeral

tucked into the back pocket.

Many thanks for stopping by 

and

I hope you enjoyed this post

today.

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A Special Needlekeep

 Happy New Year friends.  

It's nice to be back in blog land again.  My apologies for being absent these many months.  

I have finished many projects, and started a few, as well, and will try and be more vigilant in sharing these with you all.

First up is a precious Needlekeep I created from a gorgeous kit I purchased from Georganne Miller Anderson, who you can find at Damsels in Lace on FB.  She sources beautiful vintage European laces for her kits and custom creates for her clients a lovely selection of pieces to create from. 

This kit comes beautifully wrapped with complete easy to follow instructions on how to assemble.

Each package labelled for easy access.

Full of more than enough embellishments to create with.

And this gorgeous cabochon button, with the most delicate boutique of Forget-me-not Flowers.  The prettiest button I have ever seen.

Usually, Georganne gives her Needlekeep kits a name, but I have named my own.  Recently, on December 24, 2020, I became a grandmother for the first time.  A sweet little girl, who I hope will take up the needle some day.

So may I present,

"Aurora"

Some pretty scissors tied in there with silk ribbon.

A view of the front and back cover laid open.

I hope you enjoyed my post today.

  Be back soon with more completed projects.

Enjoy your day my friends.

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Leave a comment, I'd love to hear your feedback, xo

My Tattered Lace / Postcard Journal

Finally, today is the day I'm going to show case my tattered textile journal.  This journey started a couple of years ago when I became interested in and making textile postcards.  I had a group of postcards that I wanted to show case in a fabric journal.  I came across a wonderful textile artist, Suzy Quaife from Australia, who offered an online course showing how to create a journal using fabrics and lace.   I knew right away this was the direction I wanted to go with this.  I hope you enjoy viewing what I really enjoyed creating.

My most favorite postcard made the cover.  Bits of lace, buttons, beads and a vintage quill  tip found in a bottle of buttons at the thrift store.  Many of the fabrics and doilies I purchased from the thrift store, too.

This beautiful card was a gift from a very creative lady, also from Australia.  Lorraine Williams was happy to oblige me with a card exchange when I approached her on FB after spying some of her beautiful cards.  She creates the most beautiful pieces of work up cycling discarded vintage linens and doilies.

                                                              

A postcard made with dried wheat growing wild along my daughters lane.

And a pocket made from an embroidered line napkin, filled with tags. 

Sorry about the image of this postcard, it has a very fluffy feather stitched to it with a brass fairy charm at the base.  All stitched on a pretty batik fabric.

Opposite is a lovely stamped card which I layered with some silk.  The two stamped cards were made by Suzy Quaife.

Here amazing work can be found on her blog:

https://suziqusthreadworks.blogspot.com/

 

Well, blogger's new format is giving me grief so I gave up commenting with each image.  I mostly wanted to acknowledge the added pieces from Suzy Quaife and Lorraine Williams.  Their art inspired me to create this keepsake journal.  

Thank you ladies.

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Thank you friends for stopping by and having a look at my Tattered Lace/Postcard Journal.

Have a lovely day,

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Welcome Spring

Good morning friends near and far.  At last it is starting to feel like spring....and so welcome this year with all that is going on in the world.  I feel thankful that I have my art to keep myself somewhat sane.  I do hope you all are keeping well and safe .... and sane ;)

I had a request from a co-worker, for a decorative hand made guest book.  Sadly, his wife had passed away in January and he was planning a memorial service to be held in May, and wanted something nice for the guests to sign or comment in.

I set about picking some fabrics and embellishments to create the outside cover.  I chose a crazy quilt patch to stitch and embellish as I really do love crazy quilting ... my favorite go to project.

And voila ... the front cover 

and the back

The inside has a lace pocket and some simple linen paper attached 

by a length of silk ribbon

This stitched up quite quickly and was assembled in less than a day, which kept me occupied on Good Friday.

I hope you have enjoyed my blog today.

  

Coming up next,

A Crazy Quilted Journal 

stuffed full of gorgeous papers, tags and tucks.