Scrappy Hand Stitched Needle Book

Thank you all for the interest in items from the last post. Answers to the questions I received...

January's cake: Daughter Beth made Rock Recipe's Orange Velvet Cake With Buttercream Frosting and the recipe is at that link. She says she has made almost all of Barry's Velvet cakes and they all turned out well...we've eaten quite a few of them and can certainly agree!

Her colourful wall is made of water coloured with food colouring and frozen. She used this sort of brick sized plastic container to freeze the water.

And here is the CBC video of the|Saskatoon woman, Laura, making her wall that inspired Beth to make one.

Squirrel Alert!

I got a little sidetracked this weekend with stitching a little needlebook for my Floral Motif Sampler project.

 I don't have a needleminder( Stitched Modern has this little article on how to use these newfangled things) and decided I needed to get a consistent way to deal with needles- instead of stabbing them through the corner of my fabric!.

 I looked at loads of needlebooks and settled on Susie's here as my main inspiration.  Of course, mine would be very scrappy which is definitely the way I roll. 

 I gathered as many little neutral bits that I could sew onto an old piece of fabric approximately 5 x 6.

I used just enough glue to hold them in place while I ran running stitches, Kantha style, through them to hold in place.  

Deciding on a little motif for the cover was really fun. Because this one will house the needles for a flower project, I figured something flowery would be appropriate.

 I dug to the bottom of my scrap bags to pull out the tiniest bits to put to use for the petals. Hmmm, I think I like the larger number of petals arranged randomly like above better than the way they are below. 

Still TO DO... add a few more stitches to pin down those petals and also add the flannel pages; then it will be finished and put to use. It was so pleasurable to sew something that didn't involve following closely a pattern for a change. 

I enjoyed this video about which Ikea items would work well in a sewing room. As you can guess, there are quite a lot as Ikea is known for its emphasis on organization for the home.

I'm interested in this because, as much as I work at organizing my sewing space, it never quite suits me. That is definitely an ongoing issue for me.

 Hope your week is off to a great start! 

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