Slow stitch book

Photo: A stack of hand-painted signatures waiting to be bound into stitch journals. Back in July of 2022 during a studio clean, I found a couple of small fabric books stuck in a drawer. I had made them the previous summer, and for whatever reason they hadn't lived up to my expectations, thus in the drawer they went, the place where things I don't know what to do with wind up. I'm not certain but I think I originally intending them to be needle books. I must have had some other visual imagery…

Photo: A stack of hand-painted signatures waiting to be bound into stitch journals. Back in July of 2022 during a studio clean, I found a couple of small fabric books stuck in a drawer. I had made them the previous summer, and for whatever reason they hadn't lived up to my expectations, thus in the drawer they went, the place where things I don't know what to do with wind up. I'm not certain but I think I originally intending them to be needle books. I must have had some other visual imagery…

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Hi Everyone 👋 I've had a lot of requests recently for a video about my slow stitch process. Specifically, how I set up my fabric book pages for my #feathers...

For the 100 day project this year I decided to join the Stitch book challenge hosted by @annwood. Got the 20 pages of size 5.5"×7" cut and ready before the start date of 20th Jan 2023. I was excited to learn a new method of assembling a fabric book - the slot and tab method. I didn't have a theme in mind. Going through my stash A floral theme emerged. My sleepy companion - Gin the Calico cat 🐈. Kasuti embroidery swatches from a project I did years ago in Hubli, Karnataka. Flowers my mum…

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The construction of the embroidery stitches sampler books is hard to describe for this crafts how-to. I hope the photos help and that I can effectively describe how I put them together and make sense instead of being clear as mud. If you click on an image, you will get a closer view. It will…

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Over the last several months all of my creative focus has been on creating handmade cloth "Stitch Journals" in which I can experiment in and fill up. Here's an example of one of them... I began by hand painting all of the fabrics, (Jacquard Textile Colors were mainly used). I then machine stitched the fabrics into pages to later hand-bind into the journal. When I make the "blank" pages I like to add machine stitched lines and bits of machine stitched appliqué. (I consider the journal to be…

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Hand stitching and collage with fabrics and paper in art journaling with Roben-Marie Smith. Slow stitching adds lovely texture to art journals. art journaling ideas | art journal inspiration

Over the last several months all of my creative focus has been on creating handmade cloth "Stitch Journals" in which I can experiment in and...

Day 15/100 of #The100DayProject - #100DaysOfFragments . Another #microminijournal Joy Journal, the pages measure 2" x 2" . Contains 300 gsm watercolour paper. . This little journal was put down a few times today. Firstly to give the process the attention she was demanding. Clearly, she's feeling so much better as she's giving me so much sass. She woke me again this morning with the song of her people then wanted to play for the first 3 hours of the day. I got a little bit of stitching…

Some of my favourite things! A new-for-me book by @tillyrosevintage from @thethreadstudioaustralia , a new stitchery and natural finds. The… | Instagram

To be loved treasures | My Alfred is completed Inspiration from my pattern book Alfred by Lisa Mattock #foragebylisamattock and Rachel from… | Instagram