On Wednesday, Roger & I drove over to near Bridgenorth, where I was dropped off at Laura Kemshall's new workshop studio to spend a day playing. Roger went off walking on Clee Hill.
And here's some of what I did.
Here are some of the bits glued down in an unfinished composition.
I came away with a head full of ideas. Of course whether this gets finished or gets chopped up into something else is anybody's guess.
But the day was fun and the process was great. And that's all that matters.
I dyed and printed the fabrics at a workshop at Ineke's studio and then tore the calico up to make the book. It's called a 'Tulip' Book because that was the theme Ineke used for her class sample!
The dyed and printed calico.
Some of the 'pages' sewn together
These next two photos show the stitching I did at the crop on Sunday.
Yesterday I went to my local crop. A crop is a gathering of people - usually ladies - who make scrapbook pages. Except that I don't scrapbook anymore so I took my journals to finish. The pages of which featured here.
I ended my last post with this photo of the signatures I had put together.
I divided the 4 signatures into 5 and decided to make two journals - one with 3 signatures in and one with 2. I followed the course instructions (well almost!) and made the cover like a duvet cover. And it was just as difficult to get the stiffening into the cover as getting a duvet into a duvet cover!
So for the second one I decided to have raw edges and not worry about it.
Here's the first one with ribbon machined on for the closure tie.
And the signature stitches on the spine.
This one just has ribbon tied round it. I might stitch it to the cover!
Here's a flip through of the two journals. I went to great lengths to film it so it wasn't wobbly like last time and yet this is the one that YouTube offered to remove the wobbly bits from!
And while I was at the crop I also stitched some more of my 'Tulip' Book - an online class from Ineke Berlyn. But I'll leave that for another post.
