Scrap Happy Stitched Book Pages (April)
Biscuit Cutter
I have been working on a stitched book project since January. 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. I am using cooky cutter silhouettes on each page. On page thirteen, my lovely old biscuit cutter made…
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Shine
…apples and sunshine! There are a couple of pink sewing threads in the silk background fabric lower left. They won’t be removed because they are original sewing threads from when it was a kimono.
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Mouse and zigzag rectangle
My mouse cooky cutter…
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Daisy!
…ran up the steps made from the crimped rectangle (page fourteen).
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Dala Horse
Remembering my Swedish ancestors, and a trip to Sweden last year…
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Dala
…I made a Swedish Dalahäst from one of my favourite cooky cutters, and a couple of scraps of Swedish braid.
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Pig
This cooky cutter also came from Sweden! I love the shape…
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Svin
…and it made a lovely flying pig on page sixteen.
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pepparkakor
On page seventeen I used another pepparkakor cooky cutter…
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Flora
…to make a little floral abstract…
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Small biscuit
…and for page eighteen, a small biscuit cutter was used…
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Faunal
…to make a little faunal abstract. I actually have one more day of sewing to do on this page, I think I will add backstitched dots around the butterfly and the red circle with the fawn in it.
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Swedish Horse and Pig
Everyone has their favourite page so far…only two more pages to stitch then we’ll sew it all together!!
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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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Quimper Hittys 
I love the tribute to your Swedish roots.
Thank you so much! I really have enjoyed this project, and how it has evolved into something meaningful and pretty.
It looks like it was fun.
I love the idea of using cookie cutters as your starting point. My favourite is the pig with its lace wings – such a nice contrast oof a large heavy mucky animal with the delicacy of the lace!
Pigs might fly eh? I like that one a lot too, and was pleased to find the scrapiest scrap of pinkish kimono fabric to fit the pig cooky cutter (but only on the bias).
How lovely 🥰
Thanks so much! ❤
Wonderful pages and I can see why some of the critters in your collection are enamored with certain pages! Creative way to use cookie cutters 🙂
Thanks very much – I love old cooky cutters and can’t resist an interesting new one either!
I can’t pick a favorite, they are all unique and wonderful. Love the “sounder” of pigs in the last photo. We had pigs on the farm on Salt Spring Is. – the are lovely critters, very smart and friendly. The mouse page is very cute with the mousie door and the fabric at the bottom.
Every page is my favourite while I am working on it, but many members of the Hitty cupboard have opinions! The sounder of Hitty pigs is very tame…don’t quite know how I ended up with so many…
look out, maybe they are multiplying 🙂
I love this! Every year I tell myself I am going to do a slow stitching project but I have not done it yet. I especially love yours for the way you are combining all kinds of scraps within a theme.
Thanks so much…maybe one day it will be the right day to “slow Stitch” for you. I had been thinking of it for a few years too, and this was the year!
I admire your discipline with these charming pages and your clever use of cookie cutters.
I’m enjoying the progression.
Oh thanks! For me the discipline was more about stopping after 15 minutes (I did give myself permission to finish whatever thread I was stitching with at the time).
Interesting.
so beautiful, I loved so much, Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you nia, I do enjoy this process, I feel like I am making some little jewels out of an abundance of leftover scraps, and it is good to feel positive for at least 15 minutes every day!
Alright, the idea of using cookie cutters for your shapes is genuis! The horse looks very folk art, the flowers page is my favorite❤️ Smart Scrapping!
Thanks so much! The “flora” page makes me happy too! Aside from the background, most of the fabrics on this page and on “fauna” are from Liberty prints.
such intricate detail. And how clever to use a biscuit cutter for fabric shapes.
Thanks very much. I don’t know quite how the idea came to me but it’s working really well for me!
Every page a work of art! I am sharing this journey with you and you have been such an inspiration.
A shucks, thank you! I am so glad to have a friend along for the journey!
Being from Dalarna I love the Dala horse of course 🙂 The whole book is lovely. What a great idea for scraps.
Thanks very much! I am glad you liked the Dalahäst, it was harder to make an embroidered fabric one than I thought it would be. I have one that my faster Anna gave me in 1963, and more horses have arrived to keep it company over the years!