A Little Stitched Workbook - Rachael Margeson May Meeting 2025

 Rachael one of our own members led the workshop today on making a little embroidered book. She brought some very pretty samples of little books, a concertina book and individual framed page [pictures below]. The choice was ours but most members decided to have a go at the little embroidered book with one member choosing a concertina book.

Rachael inspired us by talking about the different pages in her books and how they had been achieved.

She suggested that we stick to neutral colours and embroider seedheads over/beside the pieces of fabric and lace.

To help us out with the seedheads she had produced some  stylised drawings of seedheads and suggested that we had a go at drawing them first,  to help with muscle memory when embroidering them.

We were all raring to go and cut out our pages and began auditioning fabrics and threads.

We began by attaching some of the fabric and lace and then embroidering seedheads onto the pages using stitches such as stem stitch, chain, running, lazy daisy etc..

We were aiming for a front and back cover and approximately 5 pages which would then be sewn together to make a book.

By home time most members had partially made a couple of pages but it dawned on us all despite the size of the book it was going to take quite a while to complete.

 Hopefully they will be finished some time in the future!

It was an enjoyable and fun day and our thanks go to Rachael for inspiring us, suggesting stitches for seedheads, showing us how to put the book together and offering guidance when needed.

Thanks again Rachael for an inspiring day.