Friday, April 18, 2008

Journal Making Class -- Week Two -- Sketchbook Journal

The second week's journal that I made in Sue Bleiweiss's on-line class is a sketchbook with removable pages. Instead of using a single fabric for the outside of the journal, this sketchbook is made using parts my son's old outgrown and holey jeans. I used lots of pocket portions so that he can keep treasures in them (he is 9 years old). The closure is a snap from an actual pair of jeans. The inside there are lots of pockets for holding pencils and other art supplies. Strips of fabric decorate the outside of the book rings that are used to hold the pages in the sketchbook.

I did muck up and put the holes for the rings in the wrong place. The two outside ones are fine, but the center hole is nowhere near the center. Ooops. The holes are not standard distance apart anyway, they almost have to be made using a single hole punch so it is not a big deal.

Journal Making Class

Starting on March 31st, I started Journal Making for the Fiber Artist, an on-line class with Sue Bleiweiss. As an avid bookbinder and fibre artist, this class really intrigued me. So far, I am having a lot of fun and creating some journals for myself and for some as gifts. My first journal from this class is pictured here. It is made from strips of silk, frayed at one edge and stitched down. The clasp is created from a fibre button made in the motif from a project from my City&Guilds course. The machine made cord is made of strips of silk stitched with the same thread as the satin stitching on the edges. Beads were added to the ends of the cord.


Beads were also added to the spine as I was stitching the signatures to the cover using a pamphlet stitch. Can you tell that I am a magpie?
The inside has two pockets, one on the left and one on the right. The pocket on the left was made using a similar method to the cover, but the lining was stitched to the cover fabric and then stitched to the Pelmet that I added to give the pocket more stability.










There are various pockets and interesting pages throughout the journal. Some of these are made from card stock and others are made from translucent mulberry paper. As you can see there is also a pen loop to hold a pen and keep it handy.


The journal
in these pictures was completed on April 2, 2008. I am slowly learning about posting photos and blogs. I will post other photos of other journals in the next few days.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Fibre Woman's Blog Beginning

There are some amazing blogs out there and I have been perusing several of them over the last few days. I have finally decided to start one of my own. So, here it goes . . ..