Free Hand Machine Embroidered Journal Cover
Today is Granny's birthday and as last week was a school holiday in the UK, I needed a fairly quick design to whip up and post whilst keeping the children (and cat) entertained! This adorable pair of little birds fitted the bill perfectly, so I grabbed some fabric from my stash and got to work.......
....and this is what I produced.....
A personalised journal so that Granny can jot down her oh so important thoughts and dreams!
As it was a busy half-term holiday with the children, I was up against the clock to get it wrapped and to the Post Office before the last collection of the day. This made the taking of blog photos really rushed, the cover is a lovely shade of pink linen which I struggled to capture in the house, so we went outside to try our luck there.
Unfortunately we failed to take into account bad jealous kitty, who couldn't bear to share 'her' attention with anything, even an inanimate object as boring as a note book! She therefore rubbed herself all over it claiming it as hers, which was bad enough, but we really gave up when the claws came out!
Having admitted defeat and reluctantly admitted that 'washed out' photos would have to suffice we came back inside. George and Alice then each took a page from the notebook and produced a birthday picture and message to really personalise the project. The back of the journal also features their names in the form of a free motion machine embroidered message, which if you squint really hard you might just be able to pick it out in one of the photos above!
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