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It's a hardback notebook today, one of these (and no, I'm not on commission).

I can recommend stitching into one of these books.

There are pages of dots, graph paper and other linear patterns which make spacing so easy. 

The paper is very receptive to needle and thread too.

I haven't actually worked into this one for a while and I'm tempted but I must finish some other things first. 

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You have been seeing a lot of stitching in notebooks recently.

Well....I have lots of those, embroidered/stitched notebooks. 

Today it's a different one, an old one.

(you may have seen it at the 'other place')

There are lots of these little stitched/design/exploration pieces dotted around my house.

I'm tempted to keep sharing them with you. 

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My current project is all consuming. 

I am not working on anything else. 

A reminder, there's a wrapping cloth and a design notebook. 

More painted cloth is being embellished for the wrapping cloth and 'different' overlays are being created for the design notebook.

There are plans for more hand made embellshments for the notebook to accompany my little mushroom tags. 

Can you tell I am enjoying this? 

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Another stitched notebook....one from 'the other place'.

This one was created before my current piece which you are seeing regularly on here. 

As you will notice, I didn't develop this one as fully as the book I am working on now.

I learnt from this one, (we learn from everything don't we) and I am learning from my current one.

It has occured to me to add to this one taking inspiration from current work but sadly I have a very limited supply of this paper. 

Regardless, if I don't do anything else with this one ...

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I have started to add the hand stitched overlays to the pages of my little design notebook.

Little mushroom tags have also been added to some pages.

There is so much more I want to do in this little book.

(notebook measures 6x81/2 inches) 

I have calculated how many more overlays I need to make....thirteen.

I best get going then. 

 

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It's been a notebook morning.

Cutting papers, stitching pages, painting pages.

 

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Last time I was here it was all about the hand stitched overlays.

Today it's two new pages which will each have an overlay too.

I'm possibly going to add more to these, that's why they don't yet have an overlay. 

The embellishment here is all hand stitch, scraps of cloth and scraps of paper too.

You may have noticed a little watercolour in the backgrounds. 

I'm not sure of the gsm of the paper in this notebook.

It's quite thin and almost certainly not made to accept wet media but it didn't ...

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embroidery in gridded notebooks

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notebook stitching

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Kreative Kiwi has some great embroidery designs. Last week they had a great sale on in-the-hoop notebook covers. I've been eyeing these for a long time. I've made more than a couple notebook covers but I had never made one using my embroidery machine. 
Each step is a hooping, which is a neat way to make something bigger than you embroidery hoop could handle if you were to make all of it in a single hooping.
This pattern even adds the lining in the hoop. The gray fabric is leftover from a quilt I made. 
I used some ...

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play and stitch is continuing in my notebook.....another page, the next page.
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I'm continuing to work in this notebook, sampling on paper. Box pleats, a beaded edge and some hand stitches
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beaded edge and box pleats on paper, a stitched notebook.

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stitching pages, a notebook. new paper to play with!!
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notebook stitching
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