My original intention was to stitch the individual 5" x 5" pages onto flannel, then sew the flannel together into two-sided pages, but it quickly became apparent that the book would be too thick. So, no flannel, just two pages back-to-back with a 1" strip of cloth along the spine edge ...
joined together with safety pins ...
then stitched along the spine edge, front and back ...
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| Note: I stitched the edging onto the front side, folded it over the spine, then stitched the backside without going all the way through to the front. |
This is where it got interesting. I wanted the stitch joining the two pages together to show on one side, but not the other. Which argued for Jude's invisible basting ...
but with the b-side intentionally visible, which required some thought about what exactly would show and how to get there. So I tried for a "wandering" stitch since I was pretty sure that straight line basting would be pretty hard to pull off ...
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| The resulting line calls to mind the Flight of the Bumblebee ... or the path taken by any two-year old child on a walk |
Last, but not least, there was an eleventh-hour addition of two pages when daughter Meg made a comment that confirmed what I knew in my gut: I needed to include all of the lyrics. Fortunately, I've gotten much more comfortable with the Pitt pen ...
and was pleasantly surprised at how much I was able to stitch in one day ...
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| Note: one word was changed to fit what I used to sing to my girls every night ... |
