My we have been busy, still ploughing through the books and trying to come up with little things that should sell well even if the bigger things don't, so today I printed out these loads of bookmarks - seeing my patterns altogether felt quite satisfying!
Oops I appear to have lost a couple of days somehow, but when each day consists of the same thing they tend to all merge together!
Here are a few of the fabric sheets I printed this morning drying in the sun. I'm experimenting with using prints of one or two of my art pieces, not sure if they work as book covers but will see what they look like when finished.
Gosh the days to We Make are counting down quick. I've now got approx 50 books ready to sew, but only 3 stitched. Going to have to speed up!
Stitching books is an evening job because I can do it sitting on the sofa and watch TV so I thought I'd better get this photographed before the sun disappeared. I am loving my new fabric designs, hopefully I will sell enough of these to have proper quantities of fabric printed up (well a girl can dream!)
A new batch of indian cotton rag paper has turned up so I spent a delicious hour or so folding them up into signatures ready for stitching. I ordered a few pages in black this time to make photo albums with, something I haven't made in a few years so will see how they turn out!
I used to love drawing patterns as a kid over and over again on graph paper my dad used to bring home from work. After a week working solid on websites I needed a rest so sat with my sketch book and a bundle of books and magazines and just doodled. I need a range of fabric designs for my journals and with the We Make fair only 6 weeks away the pressure is on! Simple line drawings scanned into Illustrator and coloured. I am 10 years old again and in heaven!
Sometimes they work sometimes they don't. This one is definately a failure (although strangely it looks quite good in the photo). I will have to be careful when printing these fabrics that there isn't too much white as as soon as it gets stuck onto the book cover its turns grey. Or I cover the board in a layer of white first. And the black stitching is too heavy. Back to the drawing board methinks!
I've been so busy doing computer based work just lately I haven't had chance to 'make' anything and I have been getting serious withdrawal symptoms. So spent a glorious afternoon (really, complete with sunshine) making this book. It's my first 100% original design - the fabric design on the cover you may recognise from earlier posts - and I am really pleased with it. I am keeping this one for myself but I am working on more which will appear in my shop over the next few weeks.
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