Coptic Stitch Book

A book I have made from covers received in a swap . I have used coptic stitch as a binding it came out more or less right it works so thats ok
Coptic stitch always looks complicated I followed it one stitch at a time although some instructions are clearer than others. The signature covers are papers I used to stamp out some home made stamps that I will improve on as I use the book. I intend to use it as a doodle book.

Bog Baby

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This is the Bog Baby I made from my own pattern from the book of the same name by Jeanne Willis. I made it for my granddaughter who is a teacher to take and show her class. Its a great book about a little bog baby found in a pond its a picture book with a story for the younger school child.
I drew the pattern out on paper not hard to do the feet and eyes were felt the wings lutrudor the tail plastic bag all bits found in my left over bag its only about six inches tall and fits in a margarine tub

Fabric Book

At last Iv'e made a fabric book. I kept saying I would but never seemed to get around to it. There are quite a few out in blogging land this is my version. It includes hand and machine embroidery with some of my own hand dyed lace. The finished size is 10x8" I cut the pages out of cotton materials and machined the embellishments on then sandwiched thin wadding in between each set of pages and sewed it up like a bag turning it out the right way and hand sewing the open edges. I was going to stitch it together with a fancy stitch like Coptic but didn't exactly figure out how to do it so I just back stitched down the center of the stack of pages. I did find this the easiest way to line up the page edges. I will put it on my craft stall but dont expect to sell it customers wont like my asking price so I will probably keep it myself or give it away as a gift. I think I will have to make a paper book and practice Copic stitch I have seen some very nice versions about