Quimper Hittys

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 now have a beautiful cloth book of 20 pages.  All the fabrics and the sewing threads used in my book are scraps.  I used cooky cutter silhouettes on each page. The next-to-last page uses a sitting cat and an oval shape…

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…to portray a cat gazing out the window.

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…and I used the cut-out from that same oval, and added a tiny cat cooky cutter shape…

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…for the very last page of all.

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Then there was all the assembling to organize. Luckily I sort of worked in pairs of pages so I already had an idea of which ones I wanted to face each other.

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I put page numbers on with removable painter’s tape…

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…reorganized them in order of a complicated chart and sewed them together.

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Sections are sewn together in five sets of four pages – three as “slots” and two as “tabs”.

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Then you assemble it all together in a particular way…

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…and like magic, you have a little stitched book! Here is the front cover – result of one hundred days of decorative stitching, and a few more of assembly.

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I bought this little book-shaped tin in Sweden last year…

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A perfect container for this magical project!!

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Click Here for a link to the Ann Wood blog that describes the stitched book project, including the complicated assembly in more detail. Thanks to Onesmallstitch (link at Jean below) for the inspiration and encouragement to try stitching 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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