Fanciful Story, Chapter Seven - I've Got You Covered

Some of the stitching on this project was challenging but I rarely find stitching daunting. I relish learning new techniques and working with new materials. The finishing process is less my forte and often takes me outside my comfort zone. I have mounted several of my embroideries for framing and am relatively comfortable with that process. Fanciful Story is a book cover which is something that I have not done before.

The first issue I encountered was that the dense stitching had shrunk my carefully measured surface area. I needed to make some small adjustments to get everything to fit.

The first step was to separate the pages from the cover of the supplied book in order to lave the embroidery around the cover in much the same way I would cover a mount board.

I needed to adjust this a couple of times to allow the covers to close around the pages (because of the shrinkage I mentioned earlier). When I was finally happy with the fit, I pasted in new end papers. For this, I used a hand-marbled paper that I had purchased several years ago. At the time, I was looking for marbled paper for a different project but I could not resist this flame marbled paper. I was very happy that the scale of the marbling and the colours were a perfect fit for this project.

© Rachael Kinnison/Carol-Anne Conway

Recovering the book was extremely challenging and tested my patience but, in the end, it was worth persevering.

© Rachael Kinnison/Carol-Anne Conway

The End.

Happy Stitching

PS: Fanciful Story is one of a series of limited-edition Heirloom Embroidered Ornaments designed and sold by Rachael Kinnison of Diamond K Folk Art.