These journal covers are stitched completely by hand. They contain three handmade notebooks filled with coffee dyed paper and a handmade folder with pockets.

Nazy Cardiel | Two journals from my handmade collection! Both are slow stitched embroidered fabric covered journals that took me months to finish. The… | Instagram

Over the last several months all of my creative focus has been on creating handmade cloth "Stitch Journals" in which I can experiment in and fill up. Here's an example of one of them... I began by hand painting all of the fabrics, (Jacquard Textile Colors were mainly used). I then machine stitched the fabrics into pages to later hand-bind into the journal. When I make the "blank" pages I like to add machine stitched lines and bits of machine stitched appliqué. (I consider the journal to be…

People ask what I do with my slow stitched art, so I have prepared a video for you showing how to make a fabric book for your slow stitching. This is my favo...

Do you want to make handmade books, art journals or junk journals out of your stash of collected fabric scraps, art projects, leftover craft supplies and ephemera? Take this online art course from Wendy at Willa Wanders and learn everything you need to know to make spectacular mixed media art books

Photo: A stack of hand-painted signatures waiting to be bound into stitch journals. Back in July of 2022 during a studio clean, I found a couple of small fabric books stuck in a drawer. I had made them the previous summer, and for whatever reason they hadn't lived up to my expectations, thus in the drawer they went, the place where things I don't know what to do with wind up. I'm not certain but I think I originally intending them to be needle books. I must have had some other visual imagery…

Wendy Solganik teaches online mixed media classes, hosts a podcast called Show Up or Shut Up and creates one of a kind junk journals.