A Little Wabi Sabi Anyone?

sooooo.....

sew.....

my nemesis and i got along

surprisingly well.

i'm taking Susie LaFond's Curious Bundles class

(she is such a creative soul) and decided to make

a gift as my first project.

my sister in law has a birthday soon and since

she doesn't journal i thought i'd  make her a 

note pad cover. she works for an auctioneer and

spends a good deal of her time cataloging items

for the sales. 

this is my first attempt using some of the methods in

Susie's class. the above picture is the front 

cover. here's the back:

and the inside:

i used felt for the inside of this cover just to give it

a little structure. i thought about making some type

of closure but decided it would be better for her to

be able to just flip it open when needed.

as far as the sewing....i'll have to say i prefer hand

sewing to machine sewing. i really didn't have a

hard time with the machine...i was even able to

refill the bobbin twice while making this with

no incidence other than the thread looking like

a birds nest on the bobbin...but it worked fine.

the biggest problem was sewing straight lines...

which is this users fault and not the machine...

although Susie stresses to go with the flow and

don't worry about things like that.

i'm just thankful for the concept of wabi sabi.

* i decided to personalize this a little by adding
a picture of my brother that was transferred to
cloth and put in an old film negative holder. even
after 27 years of marriage they are still that couple
that are joined at the hip and she will like seeing
his smiling face.