Saturday 3 January 2009

COMPLETED COPTIC STITCH SPINE

Stitch inside the signatures
stitch between the signatures

Journal 1 16"x8.75"gilded kitchen towel hard cover
9 signatures with 6 pages in each 54 pages one for each week of the year
made from cartridge paper stitched with string

Journal 2
Dove christmas card 13cm x 16cm
(sorry l jump from inches to centimeters all the time)
7 signatures with a card and 6 trash paper pages making 56 pages
stitched with white cotton knitting thread!!

Opens flat so brillant for sketching

made a couple of mistakes...more care needed
and l will try waxing the thread next time
Taking these photos l managed to catch my elbow in my coffee!!!...lesson learn't here
drink the bloody stuff...
all over me the rug and the coffee table....not exactly why its called a coffee table though!!! hahaha
thank goodness not on the journals or anything else!!
Next Journal already planned...a small 3.5" square one for Zentagles
happy day

2 comments:

  1. These look so great. I have to get to Spotlight to get some iron-on interfacing, then I will make some. Are you using the wax that is sold as "Treasure Gold' to gild? I have that and also plenty of gold acrylic. Maybe I will test both today.

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  2. Hi quirkyartst..yep Treasure gold does all sorts gilds the paper and waxes and colours the threads too
    but gold paint will do the job just as well
    Have fun x

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