I have been busy making new projects for my
Craft Workshops. Here is the latest, notebook covers made with pieces of vintage embroidered linen.
About a year ago I bought a big haul of these from a church who had been left them in a church member's will. I wrote about it in
this post.
I love the idea of using up these pieces on new projects. This piece above had a small stain on it but I have embroidered over this with 'my notes', thus using up something which otherwise seemed useless. I made this cover with a lovely piece of vintage fabric I bought in an antique shop in
Tetbury a couple of years ago.
The next, slightly improved version, includes new fabric from the stash
Dolores sent me (that stunning Kaffe) and the green and blue leaf fabric from
My Fabric House.
I used this excellent
tutorial from
My Patchwork Blog. Though I didn't bother with the top stitching as I didn't think mine needed it as they fit quite snuggly.
These were easy, quick and inexpensive to make. They would look just as good with more scrappy fabric instead of the embroidered linen. Hopefully I will get a enough bookings to teach
this class in October (Saturday 29th if any local peeps would like to come along!). I can also see a lot of friends and family getting these for Christmas this year!
