Spring Fabric Journal with Coptic and French Link Stitches

I’m not sorry to say goodbye to February – it’s been a tough, snow filled month here in New England. I just hope that March brings us some sunshine to melt all that white stuff and cheer us all up!

Today, I’m sharing the last ‘sewn over tapes’ binding (for a while).  If you’ve been following along with my 50 Book Project, you’ll notice a theme – January’s books focused on long stitch bindings and February’s books were all ‘sewn over tapes’ bindings. March’s books will feature coptic bindings. If you want a quick recap, I’ve created a page where you can see them all listed and there’s also a button in the sidebar.

For book number 9, I combined a coptic binding with a french link stitch over tape. And I’m still smitten with fabric covers, so this one features a pretty quilting fabric that reminds me of Spring. It’s a long, narrow book that measures 4″ x 8″. Here’s a close up look at the French link stitch sewn over a piece of wide twill tape.

And here you can see one the 4 rows of coptic stitching.

Iron-on fusible webbing was used to attach the fabric and card stock end papers to the book board.

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Details
Size: 8″H x 4″W x 0.5″D
Materials: Fabric, card stock,twill tape, embroidery floss, adhesive fusible webbing and copier paper.
Tools: bone folder, needle, paper cutter, Xacto knife
Binding: Coptic Stitch and Sewn onto Tape Supports with French Link Stitch