Fat Book Pages - 6

Hand painted/stamped fabric, dyed lace, beaded trim, embroidery.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, embroidery and beads.

Hand painted/stamped fabric. The ATC's are from Australia, the work of  a fellow blogger at Bimbimbie. She regularly shows photos of birds, ones that we never see here in the UK.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, handmade clay buttons, embroidery.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, screen prints.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, sheer fabric layers, embroidery, clay flower. When I made the clay shape I put in holes so that I could sew it to fabric.

WIP and TAST 111

I've worked a couple more TAST stitches on my hand printed fabric. I used Tast 111, zig zag coral stitch as a couching thread to keep the organza in place on top of the printed fabric [light blue, perle thread]. As you can see I sewed it in a random manner rather than all the same size. I also used Tast 114, Long tail chain stitch together with running stitch to define the leaf pattern [dark blue, flower thread]. 

Join in? - Take a Stitch Tuesday

TAST 29 and Stitch Book

Take a stitch Tuesday - this weeks stitch is basque stitch. I've used the stitch for couching again. The patterned fabric with the chicken was part of a digitally printed fabric sample, the full design can be seen on a t-shirt in my Zazzle store. The green fabric was hand printed. The only other additions are the charms.

My samples as a collection were getting really fat so I have made them into a book. I used a hand printed fabric for the covers and embellished with some of the stitches we have used in the Tast challenges.

I made it similar to an exposed spine book and used a spotty tape for the binding and the ends are hidden in the covers. It was a bit more complicated than a paper book - the blanket stitch on the covers was done after the binding.

I stitched on the back too, that was a mistake but I thought I would leave it in.

I think I will add a list of stitches on the inside cover although most of them are named a few are not.