Back in February I started the Brave Girls Soul Restoration online class and I'm happy to say that while I haven't completed all the projects, I'm still plugging along.
Journaling is a big part of the class. We aren't art journaling per se, Melody Ross includes a plethora of art technique videos in the curriculum that you can use to enhance your projects. A plain black art journal was just not going to do.
Hello, patchwork!
Here's the scoop...
I cut and ripped pieces of assorted fabrics and used Mod Podge to attach them to the journal. Yep, rocket science right there ;-).
It is important to coat both side of the fabric with the Mod Podge ~ and a final coat over the top helps seal everything in.
I did want to add a little something in addition to the fabric pieces so I freehand stitched the word 'restore' onto a piece of plain canvas cloth.
I like to challenge myself: I don't write the word on the fabric ahead of time and I don't know (yet) how to use my free motion embroidery foot on my sewing machine so I just kind of wing it with the regular foot.
I was relatively happy with how this turned out, I don't even mind the wonkiness of the uneven zigzag stitch when I went to attach the word to the backing fabric.
This was my second attempt at freehand sewing a word on the sewing machine. Here's my first attempt:
(I like this one even better...)
I put this word on a drawstring bag a made out of a vintage pillowcase. This bag is to hold my Truth cards from the class:
Back to the journal, I'm contemplating putting a flower on it...
Hmmm, we'll see.
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