During each Handmade Book Club 5-Day Challenge, hundreds of crafters make beautiful, unique books like this Long Stitch Journal. Many of these journals have a special story, such as this one by Carol Tardiff! In this post, Carol explains the inspiration and process behind her version of the Long Stitch Journal 5-Day Challenge. The Story […]
I met up with a friend and fellow bookbinder, Suzette Durso, last weekend and she showed me some of the beautiful leather journals she’s been creating. One included some cross stitching and I was inspired to add some to the cover flap of this long-stitch book. The binding is a form of long stitch with […]
I can’t tell you enough how I love to receive photos of readers’ books in my inbox. I’m so honored that you share your work and I’m proud to show it off on my blog. Here’s a recent crop: You have to check out the work of Nancy Akerly, a book and paper artist who […]
We’ve had some crazy weather here in New England – 30″ of snow fell yesterday, and we’ve been forced to stay home for 2 days. So while my lovely husband shoveled the driveway, I had some time to make another one of the Link Stitch/Chain Stitch books that I made last week. I used […]
Oh my gosh I’m on book number 4 of The 50 Book Project. Will I be able to come up with another 46 book structures? I don’t know, but I’m going to try my best 🙂 I love this week’s binding. It’s called Long Stitch/Link Stitch binding and can be found in Volume 1 of Keith […]
Welcome to week 3 of The 50 Book Project. This week I made what I thought was going to be a quick and easy binding: a simple long stitched book. I followed this long stitch tutorial by Erica Munoz and chose for the cover material a piece of navy felted wool. The felted wool […]
