Floral journal.

I needed a new journal, so I made this one last week. It's been a long time since I made a book, and I'd forgotten how satisfying it is to have an idea, sit down and work on it, and (if all goes well) have a finished product a couple of hours later. It's probably the quickest sort of craft that I do, especially compared to knitting or even sewing, and sometimes that's what I need.

There are five signatures with five folded sheets of paper in each- just regular "artist paper" or something like that. I used coptic binding, and for now the book is being held closed by a scrap of knit fabric that just happened to match nicely. :) The covers are just sturdy pieces of cardboard covered with fabric and cardstock. I really love that fabric. I bought it at Joann's last year, intending to use it in a bag, but that didn't happen. Lately I've been daydreaming about dresses and skirts made in fabrics like this and knitting cardigans to wear with them (like this or this). It's like English countryside in outfit form, and apparently that's how I want to dress now, even though I'm not quite sure I can even pull it off. Not to mention that I basically only wear dresses and skirts to church...

{Yes, it's 90 degrees and I'm daydreaming about cardigans and tights.}