Sunday in the Art Room- A New Fabric Book

   

  Hi everyone.  Happy Sunday. I hope you're having a lovely weekend. We were back in the snow again yesterday for a little bit. 😩 Not  a dumping, but enough to look like winter again. 

   Today I’m joining Gillena's Sunday Smiles  and Nicole's  Sunday in the Art Room  also known as SITAR .

   I finally finished going through my bookshelves, and probably one of the most inspiring things about doing that chore (besides finding a few books I want to reread and even a couple that got lost in the shuffle that I haven't read) is having gone through some of my previously made cloth journals. Now I'm inspired to get back to making a new  one and also to finish one I started over a year ago and then put aside.

   To get to that unfinished journal and to dig out supplies for another journal idea I've had, I needed to clean a  few bins that I had  stashed under my sewing machine table.  Well it was another spring cleaning job that needed to be done, and that one didn't take much more than an hour to do. 👍

   Today let me show you the partially finished cloth journal. This journal is being made on some 6x6 inch (15x15 cm) pieces of felt.  The theme is old linens and lace.  I’ve  collected some assorted  pieces of old linens and lace over several  years.   Some of these textiles were given to me and are  old, stained, or torn linens.   I  like being able to give parts of these pieces  more life in a new form. 

  Some of these pieces are old crochet doilies that I've picked up here and there. One place that I used to be able to get a lot of these types of textiles was a fair that  helped support the local hospital. I could find many inexpensive pieces because a lot of people from a generation or two ago would have had them, and now they really aren't the style so they were donated.  However sadly since Covid they no longer run this fair, but I can still find things with some looking.  Luckily I have enough to finish this project and probably even do a few more. 

   I'm using neutral colors in this cloth journal. Even though I have some peach, blue and bright yellow linens and lace, they'll have to wait for another more colorful project.

  Here's a piece (above) of an old quilt and a lace flower. I had a couple of these epoxy cameos and I added one to this page. And this next page (below) also used some scraps of old layered material  as well as a square of white burlap. 

  (above)  I hand stitched some old tan fabric pieces on, as well as this handmade button cover. I sewed it on in reverse because I liked the pulled detail. Usually that pulled detail would be on the bottom.

  Lace on lace on lace for this page (above photo).

     And above, I hand stitched this small lace coaster sized doily onto the felt directly. Then I hand stitched on some beads and some seed pearls.

  I'd sewn down some lace on this next piece, but that's as far as I finished when I picked up and put away the project . 

  I was playing around with this piece the other day, and I like this next view. It isn't sewn together yet though.  My sewing machine has gone in for a good cleaning/overhaul which is needed. (And for those who ask, I do clean my machine, but with a bunch of electronics,  there's certain things I cannot do.) I could hand stitch it, but I think I want the big cloth circle machine stitched.

Here's another idea I had for a second white felt piece.

     And here's me playing around with some ideas for some lace stitched onto black felt. I'm not sure what I'll end up doing with this page.

   I'm also not sure how I'll bring these all together, but that's part of the fun of this kind of project.

  That's all  for me. I'll share more of this when I get more completed. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up my sewing machine next weekend. Have a super rest of your weekend and start to the new week.