Slow stitch journal

Journal with Thread : This guide explains how to stitch your own stories in fabric and thread to create a stitched journal. Author, Jessie Chorley, explains how to combine treasured items of fabric, threads and notions with techniques including simple patchwork, hand embroidery and applique, to create a unique, hand stitched book to treasure forever.

Slow stitched fabric journal

These journal covers are stitched completely by hand. They contain three handmade notebooks filled with coffee dyed paper and a handmade folder with pockets.

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…

People ask what I do with my slow stitched art, so I have prepared a video for you showing how to make a fabric book for your slow stitching. This is my favo...

Hand stitching 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

New listing in CalonColourStudio today, this little beauty was so much fun to make! I have used scraps of old clothing and vintage fabrics and lace, lots of hand stitch and a pompom fringe, it's really cute. It also has envelopes and subject dividers and is probably my most favourite ❤️😍❤️ #etsyuk #etsyseller #etsyseller #handmade #handmadeuk #welshartist #journal #handdyed #textileart #stitched #idyepaper

Crude, but I love this! I’ve learned what NOT to do with my next one!

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…