Sketchbook

I decided it was time for a new sketchbook to carry around in my handbag, this one is made out of decorated pelmet vilene, with a simple stab stitch signature, the beauty of this is its very light to carry around in my bag, and when its full, I just change the signature.
The one I use at the moment has had three new signatures I usually change it when I am going on holiday, and even though I still love it, I felt like a change.

Hey I did something unusual today,I had run out of kitchen foil and so, I used baking parchment for cooking, yes, you heard right, cooking.
Its not often that my supplies get used for what they were intended.

Sketchbook

The last few weeks I have been gluing the pages of an 14.1/2" x 11.1/2" sketchbook, the paper was not very good, so prompted by the Jean Littlejohn DVD,


I decided to glue 3 together and paint them all white, I covered the outside with tissue paper and painted them, then buttonhole stitched the lot back together again, I got a little carried away and started to glue another couple of books, they are ready for the paint treatment, this gives more tooth for the crayons and oil pastels to adhere to.
Through January I have been involved with swaps and exchanges, and this has stopped me getting into a January funk, while making all these things I have been planning where I want to go next with my textiles, hence the sketchbook, now if I could only find the photographs that I planned to use, I could make a start.