Adrastea
Phase 1 of this fabric concertina is complete: the initial stitching together of layers on each panel. I stitched the Threadcrumbs patches to their backing cloth and the very thin dyed cloth to a...
Blizzard of Seeds
I’m excited about making another fabric concertina. I had cut some squares of gold fabric and mull quite awhile ago for no particular reason. They were just sitting around on the shelf where I...
Randa stitch
This is a mini tutorial for the randa embroidery stitch I used for the concertina joins. The joins look great on both sides! I used a variegated Valdani pearl cotton thread. I learned this...
Xenotopias – progress
I am really happy to be getting closer to a finished concertina book, titled “Xenotopias.” The name came from Rob Macfarlane’s book The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. It means strange or foreign...
Secret Belgian Binding
I made a book using the Secret Belgian Binding. And I finally used these boards that I covered years ago in a workshop and have been carrying around in my stash ever since. Signatures...
Black walnut dyeing
I collected black walnuts last fall from a park in Danbury, Connecticut. I stored them in a plastic shopping bag and did not make any progress in processing them. Recently I was reorganizing my...
Sewn on Spine Book 4
New skills! And using materials from my shelves! I’m very enthusiastic about this book. The decorative cloth is Three Cats Shweshwe purchased from Mnandi in Cape Town, South Africa. I added lightweight paper as...