Binding

Lots of thinking and what came out?

This. There is even a spine. Inside I fixed very narrow strips

which are drawn through a kind of crocheted eyelets and knotted loosely -

I could easily add more pages. There are six at the moment.

Beads at the end of the strips to give some weight

Turning over a page it looks like this - 

Detail of a page - I love the tunnel

.... and the toggles

.... and the bullion knots over a length of gimp.

     It was a wonderful class.

Future fabric book

A class with Karen Ruane - Embroidery School - which started in January 2017

I am preparing to bind the six pages together. with the cover

Above the front cover

and below the backside - all sewn by hand -

embroidered and beaded - lace made by machine

painted paper fixed with French knots

A collage with paper and fabric strips, lace, hand and machine embroidery 

embellished with my favorite stitches, French knots

Machine-sewn grid over a strip of fabric,

buttonhole stitches around cut-out lace flowers

Various embellishments with silk fabric, edge of a hanky, cutwork and

lace flower (clockwise)

Bumpy bits, gimp cord, scattered octagons, buttonholed machine sewn lace,

bullion knots, embellished grid of octagons

Cross stitched letter from an earlier project, padded scrim embellishment, gimp cords

cutwork, toggles - and all this on a piece of the baptism dress of DD (50 years ago)

Top right: little pocket, hexagon cutworks, beading

Now I will invent some binding of all this.

Working small

Paperball wraped with gimp -

In fact like a five legged embroidered three-dimensional spider 

I ordered gimp here: http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/ - 

it is a viscose wrapped thick cotton cord

The first one was not a great success - I did it twice

The second has a nice knot in the middle and is bedded in a silk cup 

Karen Ruane at http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/

calls it a little cabbage 

We learned how to stitch on silkpaper -

I embellished with French knots and added a piece of vintage lace

What I will do with those creations? I don't know - they willl probably be

in a kind of stitch diary - a book for reference - to look at and to enjoy.