First, I got my holiday cards done. I used to make a special card for each recipient, with a lot of stamping and painting on the cards. Now I'm not as inspired to do that kind of art, so these are just decorative papers with a greeting stamp, done assembly line style.
Bright!
Then I finished up a project that I started a loooong time ago: covered journals.
The idea of the fabric-wrapped notebooks was born of necessity: I wanted to make fabric book covers but I didn’t have a working sewing machine at the time. I thought a permanent fabric cover on a plain notebook was almost as nice.
Sometime in the pre-holiday season last year, I had cut out dozens of notebook-sized fabric pieces and started gluing them onto plain composition books. Then something came up, I dropped the project, and the books have been sitting in a box with all the tools and supplies for almost a year. This may be a procrastination record for me.
Now they are all done!
inside covers in contrasting fabric
old jewelry, ribbon, and other baubles gild the lilyAnd now that I finally have a functional sewing machine, I will also make some of the slide-on book covers that I'd originally wanted so many months ago.
Next up on the craft scene: closet accessories. I'm thinking maybe an over-the-door shoe pocket thingy, and definitely some covered hangers. More great ways to use up those fabric pieces lying around the place.
How are your holiday projects going?
Katrina
These journals are so lovely -- do they make you want to write you memoirs? : > I love covered hangers too, they are so luxurious.
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