Back in December 2023, I decided to subscribe to k3n clothtales on youtube. She is a prolific, generous and inspiring artist, specializing is slow stitch. She announced that she would be posting every Monday a smallish hand-stitched project. She suggested that we create a stitch journal with 52 pages - one for each week.
For my stitch journal, I pulled out some old jeans I had thrifted and created a book cover. I bound the 52 pages to it. I chose to machine stitch the cover after remembering that it is not fun to hand-stitch jeans denim. In my supplies, I had an eco-dyed piece of wool already cut in the primitive shape of a bird. I hand-stitched that to the cover. The cording was created using k3n's method of twisting strips of fabric.
On Monday Jan 1, k3n posted the first little project. Each week has a theme. Since we are now halfway through 2024, I thought I might go ahead and post each of my tiny pieces with the theme for that week. My pieces tend to be about 5" x 5.5" in order to fit into my book. One of my first lessons was how fun it is to stitch a finished piece to a piece of paper in my stitch journal!
k3n also posts other videos on Wednesdays and Fridays. I do not know how she does it. I cannot keep up with the other little projects, so I'm just going with the Monday projects for my growing stitch journal.
Very cool! I really enjoy your blog. I’m about your age but not nearly as prolific. I am taking inspiration from everything you post. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed your Liberty Shirt hacks, especially the purple pull-over wool boucle. I too have mad several of the original shirts and love them all. Are there separate instructions available for the pull-over hack? Did you add the binding or just fold under the neckline? Thanks!
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