Fabric Book Sign-in Tag

While I was working on all the hand stitching on the cover of my book, I decided I needed to finish something to make me happy, so I fashioned my sign-in tag for my book. I figured with a theme of letters/writing that a bookmark tag would be very appropriate. :)

I fashioned my bookmark with remnants of the fabric I printed for use on the cover and sub-cover, with a felt interior and I used Bondaweb to fuse all the layers together to keep them still and stiff while I handstitched.

First thing, I used various gesso techniques to produce the background on the watercolour paper, stamped a cursive writing image with a copper Brilliance inkpad, tore the paper to size using a ruler as a guide, and chalked the edges with copper Craf-T glimmer chalks

I fused a piece of the printed fabric to a piece of felt and cut to size. I then tacked down the paper with a bit of double-sided tape to keep the paper in place while I hand stitched around the edges of the paper in metallic copper thread with a simple running stitch combined with french knots.

Once my stitching was in place I carefully stamped my name (Ma Vinci stamps ) and handwrote my location.

With all the stitching done on the front, I then fused the fabric for the back of the bookmark to the piece, and trimmed down the fabric to size. I stitched around the entire bookmark in blanket stich using pearl cotton embroidery thread, and I started at the top middle so that my initial stitches would be covered by the tassle.

I used a grommet (large eyelet) to create a hole in which to thread my fibres through, and used a Mermaid Tears’ Tassle Tube as a collar for the fibres.