Scrap Happy Stitched Book Pages (May)
Cat and crimped oval
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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Gaze
…to portray a cat gazing out the window.
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Little cat and crimped oval
…and I used the cut-out from that same oval, and added a tiny cat cooky cutter shape…
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Be
…for the very last page of all.
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organised
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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Pages 2,3 marked
I put page numbers on with removable painter’s tape…
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Order
…reorganized them in order of a complicated chart and sewed them together.
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Insert tab into slot
Sections are sewn together in five sets of four pages – three as “slots” and two as “tabs”.
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Is it going to work?
Then you assemble it all together in a particular way…
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Magic
…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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Spine
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Tin
I bought this little book-shaped tin in Sweden last year…
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Magic
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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Quimper Hittys 
What a beautiful project! 💖 And the book all cozy in its new home! ☺️
It was very fun to do and there is a 15 minute space in the day now…I’ll have to find another project!
Awesome stitched pages and love the kitty one! That is the perfect container! 🙂
Thanks for the kind compliments! I love the kitty ones too! I bought the tin in Stockholm last summer – it is from Italy and came with biscotti inside – but isn’t it perfect for the book?!
It is perfect!
Your little stitched book truly is magical! It has been a delight to watch it grow!
I love the book! I don’t know why I haven’t done this before, I will certainly make another one next year if Ann Woods runs the project again!
That looks beautiful Kjerstin!
Thanks so much, Sue, I really had a nice time working on it, and I look at it quite often now that it is a “proper” book.
I have seen that challenge several times and wondered what I would do with the finished book. I suspect it wouls sit on a shelf unlooked at.
I set out to just enjoy the process – the finished result was kind of a bonus!
the tin is perfect. Did you stitch a word on each page? Loved the ones I could see.
I did stitch a word on each page, some are more subtle than others…I had fun with it! Thanks for being the inspiration to do it this year! I love yours too.
I’m delighted you did it and have enjoyed each page. Hopefully it will inspire someone else to try it next year.
Your book is fabulous! I love that special tin as well and can’t imagine a more perfect container for your book. I love your stitches, and the clever way you’ve used cookie cutters to provide shapes. Delightful!
Thanks so much! I am enjoying it as a book as well as a project! And all my favourite cooky cutters make me smile and bring up good memories. The tin was completely serendipitous!
Serendipity for the win.
Beautiful pieces, works… You are amazing. You inspire me too, I loved them so much, Thank you dear Hitty Lady, Love, nia
Thank you nia! I loved making the book, maybe you could join me next year, I am sure you have some beautiful scraps that you can’t bear to throw away!