Ali Manning's Little Link Stitch Book

Ali from Vintage Page Designs had a bonus book lesson to practice the link and kettle stitches. No hard cover this time and a little different way of attaching the first two signatures together - took me a minute but it was fun. It's supposed to have a cord or ribbon attached to the center spine stitches that wraps around to hold it together but I didn't have anything I liked so will add that later.

This was made with scrapbook paper for the covers and some rice paper in varying shades of green as covers for the signatures inside.

5 Day Fabric Journal Challenge

 Last week Ali Manning at Vintage Page Designs taught a 5 day challenge making a journal which included how to make your own bookcloth and using link, kettle and long stitches to sew the signatures and covers. 

The was the first one, using fabric from a skirt I bought several years ago and never wore. I had waxed thread but it was a little too heavy and made the stitching kind off tough.

This was using fabric from Joanns and sewn together with embroidery floss that I had at home. It was much easier to sew and there are tons of colors so it might be a better choice for me from now on.

This last book's cover is paper collage and also sewn with embroidery floss, but I waxed it a little first. There's only one set of long stitches because the cover (which was made awhile ago) wasn't as big as the other two.

I forgot how much I like making books and have joined Ali's Handmade Book Club. 

Can't wait to get started!