pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

I've finally finished making the small notebook to go with the pencil case as a gift for my sponsored child, Sarla. Here you can see the sweet little pencil pouch that I made using my Parakeets on Gold fabric. The panel on the notebook featuring my Red Fox King II. fabric. And here they are side by side. The blank pages on the inside are regular computer paper. And I'm just throwing this swatch photo of my Orange Chevrons on the end here instead of making a whole new post.

I made this journal from scratch using a swatch of my fabric that features my cat Richard on the cover. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to make a journal although it was a bit time consuming. I used regular computer paper that I folded in half individually and sewed together in small stacks of ten or eleven sheets using my sewing machine. (I kept the pages together with binder clips while sewing together) This step took a good long while as my sewing machine had to be hand cranked in order for it to make it through the stacks. Once I had completed four stacks I sewed two together, and then the other two together in order to get two now larger stacks. This took awhile as the needle can only go through the holes that the machine had already made, and it took a bit of effort and a sturdy thimble to do that.  After that I repeated the process with my stitches spaced way out and doubled to get the final stack. Then I used the stack to determine the ...