Quimper Hittys

I have been working on a stitched book project –  working for 15 minutes a day, and for a total of five days per page, I will end up with a 20 page sewn book.  All the fabrics and the sewing threads used in my book are scraps, and I am using cooky cutter silhouettes on each page.  This is page seven – I used two sizes of heart-shaped cutters to make…

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…giant delicious Strawberries!

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I use this cooky cutter shape to make Christmas pepparkakor.

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Page eight, a garden scene…with an embroidered linen doily and scrap of petit point from my grandmother’s stash.

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Page nine – fish in the sea, using my favourite big salmon-shaped cooky cutter along with a little smolt-shaped one.

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Page ten – my favourite tree cooky-cutter! This marks half way through the project, fifty days worth of stitching! I am really enjoying the whole project, and using up scraps of this and that. On this page I used a little circle of  needle lace from my grandmother’s stash to represent the full moon, and some mirrored purple silk from Lady Frances’s stash. I repositioned all the mirrors but one, so they would not end up in the seam allowances… that took up a lot of stitching time, so this page may appear pretty simple compared to some of the others.

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Compass stars. This page is the eleventh one stitched (out of 20) but it is destined to become the front cover…thanks to my friend Going Batty in Wales (link at Sue L. below) for the crochet lace on this page!

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The twelfth page (out of 20), after three days of stitching. I have to finish stitching down the corner flowers, and because it is for the back cover, I will add my initials and 2026.  Thanks to an anonymous Hitty friend for the little scrap of Broderie Anglaise from her mother’s stash – doesn’t it make great hair!?

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Everyone has their favourite page so far…and eight more pages to sew!

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Click Here for a link to the Ann Wood blog that describes the stitched book project. Thanks to Onesmallstitch (link at Jean below) for the inspiration and encouragement to try one this year!

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ScrapHappy is a group of bloggers (links below) who post monthly about using up scraps! All genuine scraps are allowed, and any material. Blog posts are published on the 15th of the month – I really love to see what people are doing with bits and pieces saved from the scrap heaps! If you think you’d like to join the group, contact Kate at the first link below:

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