Doraecyscraps: Single Coptic Binding

MR DT: Single Coptic Notebook

17 July 2017

Hello! It has been a while and I had been busy stitching!

Today, I am on the Maya Road blog sharing a hand stitched notebook today! I will never get tired of stitching notebooks, they are special with different stitching patterns and a useful gift for the recipient!

There are many chipboard albums from the Maya Road collection which I dismantle to make my notebooks. They come with tabs, which makes the notebook very different from what you can get with regular rectangular chipboards. I intend to use this notebook to document my travels, hence the travel token come in handy on the front cover. I like to keep the front cover of the notebook as flat as possible, so as not to hinder when I write.

With the same thought in mind, I hang some charms on the tabs of the front cover with the help of a bulldog clip and a mini safety pin. I like dangling charms - they are always pretty on albums or notebooks! The bulldog clips allow me to hang these beautiful charms and removing it when I need to.

Charms are very useful in every project! They are good as decor, either pasted as an embellishment or hung for decorations. Here, I am using the single coptic stitch for this notebook. The KO Waxed Hemp is perfect for this stitching! It gives me the perfect tension, and a good visual for the coptic loops. The waxed hemp is also strong enough to support the weight of charms dangling from the spine.

Maya Road is also having a promo in July - Charms! Get your supply of charms at 30% off now!
Thanks for joining me through this post and dropping by the blog today~

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MWL DT: Single Coptic Stitch with name - Mini Album

14 August 2016

Hi crafters! It's me today sharing my mini album as Made With Love DT and I had so much fun with stitching this time round!

I wanted to personalize the album for my friends. My best friends. There are so many albums I want to document our friendship so I reckon that an album with a named spine might be useful. Think of how they look if you create a few albums and put them side by side on the book shelf?

This form of sewing uses the single coptic stitch. There is so many possibilities with one form of sewing, and I am happy to be expanding the stitches to create the spine I want.

This mini album took me 2 hours to sew and another half hour for decoration. I have to say that the sewing time was long, but definitely worth my efforts! Here's a look into the album.

Sewing cultivates my patience. Really it does. There are so many ways to make the sewing process a lot easier, but nothing can make the perfect sewing except if you are patient enough to go through each and every step with accuracy. One wrong step at the initial stage, and you could go hay wired in the next steps to come. With every practice, the stitching becomes easier, and there would be less room for errors. There is no short cut in sewing, and as the saying goes, practice makes perfect.

I can't say this enough. Each binding is unique to the receiver. I can create different types of binding to suit the occasion, and I can alter the stitches to make it work for me. That is why I keep binding. This is also why it intrigues me every time when I see a particular pattern I want to add to my album. Or maybe I see an apple on the table, and the next thing I know, I would pick up my pencil to draft the sewing pattern on my notebook. (okay, maybe not apple, but you get the point.)

I like this kind of challenge. It spurs me to think of new ways to showcase my albums. It pushes me to be more patient with every mistake I make (yes, I tend to re-do the entire album until I get it right.) But that's how we learn right?

Look forward to my book binding classes! There is something new which you can pick up to customize your own album!

All materials used for this project are available at Made With Love. Don't forget to also look out for more book binding projects / classes available only with Made With Love.

Thanks for dropping by my blog today!

Single Coptic Stitch with Names Album

15 July 2016

Hi crafters! I had 2 weeks off this week from work after hospitalization, and today marks the last day of the leave. I am feeling much better now, and I actually can't wait to pop back to work.

Recently, an old friend from facebook asked if I could make an album for her, for her nephew's upcoming wedding. Of course I said yes! Sewing makes me happy, and I can't wait to sew more albums.

Here is the completed 8.5" album. It houses 16 pages, good for a guest book or wedding album for the couple.

The entire stitching took me the entire night to complete. Piercing through the chipboard pages was tough, but as I sewed through the rows, I totally forgot about it and focused on the stitching. I love customized albums! They are special in their own ways, and can suit the occasion of choice.

As an add on, I also did the cover page. Since the wedding theme was garden, I decided to use the flowers, leaves and birdcage as the main embellishments.

I didn't paste this to the cover, just in case the couple would like to add on their photo on the main cover. It is also versatile for the couple to place the decorated piece as per their preference.

Hope the wedding couple would like it and here's wishing the couple a blissful and happy marriage life! :)

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