Handstitching: The Book

5.9.2014 [cont'd from 5.1.14] I “finished” my handstitching practice. I’ve only made 8 blocks so far but (a) wanted to try something in a different format and (b) wanted to see what they look like in the foldout book format suggested by Carol Ann Waugh.*

 

Doodling with embroidery stitches is pretty easygoing and doing a 3″ square goes fast. But turning it all into a cloth book gets a little complicated. First, because embroidering the lettering seemed to take longer than the image, I decided to teach myself how to do free-motion handwriting on the sewing machine. Continued>>>