It’s finally finished, and as Rachel pointed out, more or less in time for this year’s holiday! Just thought it might be interesting to take a virtual tour through the pages.
Part two coming soon.
Posted in Cornish Holiday Journal, tagged beachcombing, bookbinding, embroidery, experimenting, finishing, found objects, free cross stitch, journal, lemon verbena, North Cornwall, rusting, shisha stitch, shishas, slate on 11/05/2014| 5 Comments »
It’s finally finished, and as Rachel pointed out, more or less in time for this year’s holiday! Just thought it might be interesting to take a virtual tour through the pages.
Part two coming soon.
Posted in Cornish Holiday Journal, Found objects, tagged blanket stitch, bullion knots, double running stitch, lemon verbena, lemon verbena tea, tea bag, Tregothnan, whipped running stitch on 04/05/2014| 9 Comments »
I love lemon verbena. The smell from the fresh crushed leaves never fails to lift my spirits and inhaling the aroma of fresh lemon verbena tea while you snuggle your hands around the mug is simply wonderful. Dried isn’t so good, but on holiday last year I bought a small packet of lemon verbena tea by the Cornish tea specialists Tregothnan. Somehow that also had to be incorporated into my journal!
The packet the tea bags came in was first up, and with an apt quote on the back as well as the elegant design on the front, I didn’t want to stick it in. I also love that scrap of tissue paper on the page behind, and didn’t want to cover that up either.
Yet every page in this journal is needed to carry something, so I blanket stitched the edge of the packet to the edge of the page so it’s now a flap with access to both the quote and that lusciously foresty scrap of paper.
Then the teabag. I wanted to stitch on one that I’d actually used, so I carefully dried it, slit the bottom to get the leaves out and then put a small piece of fabric inside to help stabilise it and give it a bit of weight. I found a single leaf shape cut from a piece of translucent green vintage fabric from something I did ages ago with fused fabric and that seemed perfect.
Toning silk thread in simple zigzagged double running stitch to form the toothed edge of the leaf, with whipped running stitch veins and a bullion knot stem. Stitching through all layers, I wanted the back to be as neat as possible.
The bottom was finished with a piece of silk ribbon and blanket stitch and it lives happily in the pocket created by its packet!
This was so much fun to do!
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