Stitch journal

Introducing to you my new friend! :D As I've told you before, as soon the new patterns for beginners were complete I immediately ran to start a new embroidery journal – my new passion. Can say that with certainty now. You might wonder, why it is blue... ...and I don't know either, haha. It just came to my mind that I want to make a color-centered journal. The choice was between yellow, green, and blue, and the latter won. I didn't choose by any logic, though, it's just what I felt at that…

Posts about stitch journal written by Karen

Posts about stitch journal written by Karen

I wrote this whole post out this morning and as I typed the last word my computer crashed and, of course, I hadn’t been saving as I went along so here is my second try. You might want a cup of tea for this one. Last week I shared a little of my stitch journal on Instagram. It generated an awful l

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...

So, this journal didn't grow that big, after all. I really felt like wrapping it up, there was a strong sense of... fulfillment, so to say? All the works found their place inside the journal. I liked how they matched being paired up together and didn't want to drag it out anymore just to incorporate a couple of other old embroidery pieces that I didn't even have a vision for in this journal. Besides, I wanted to make a journal cover already, and check if my idea would work! :) And I think it…

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

I am often asked what it takes to start your own embroidery journal. I put together a short guide on the supplies needed to create your own!

So, this journal didn't grow that big, after all. I really felt like wrapping it up, there was a strong sense of... fulfillment, so to say? All the works found their place inside the journal. I liked how they matched being paired up together and didn't want to drag it out anymore just to incorporate a couple of other old embroidery pieces that I didn't even have a vision for in this journal. Besides, I wanted to make a journal cover already, and check if my idea would work! :) And I think it…

It has been over 5 years since I began my stitch journal an (almost) daily stitching project. Writing about it in 2013 I described it has having 'No rules, no projected outcome. A record of days, but not a daily record.' I also wrote about it in my book as part of an exploration of tex