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embroidered journals

by Chloe on March 27th, 2007

Yesterday I posted about the fantastic series Noreen has been running at Hankering for Yarn about making your own journals.

I’ve made many covered journals & notebooks over the years and wanted to share two of my in-progress books:

This is a piece of silk paper, machine embroidered using metallic thread.  I then hand-embroidered the center of the

flower & hand-stitched the seed beads on.

More silk paper, but this time I hand-embroidered the design using varigated embroidery floss.  I hand-stitched the beads on using the same floss.

Smaller projects like these can be a great way of learning new techniques or experimenting with something you’d like to try, but don’t want to spend 20 hours on!

I’ll post more photos as I finish the journals.

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