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