I love to stitch on my scrapbook pages -- both by hand and by sewing machine. Unfortunately, my sewing machine and I have been having a few little tiffs lately and there's been a lot of "tension" (or lack thereof). I blame it on that darn bobbin! She's a little troublemaker. Thankfully, I think I figured out the problem and my sewing machine has been working fine lately, knock on wood.
My sewing machine is actually one of my best bargain finds. It's a heavy duty Singer sewing machine that I bought at a garage sale about 6 years ago for only $10. And it worked perfectly from the get-go! I've used it to sew on
many scrapbook pages over the years. That Singer sewing machine of mine is a great old workhorse!
When I have the time, I like to handstitch on my layouts. Here's a layout I created for Creating Keepsakes' Fabric and Notions special issue.
As seen in Creating Keepsakes magazine. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Published with prior permission from the publisher.
I did a basic cross stitch, which is a decorative stitch made by two bisecting diagonal stitches. I cross-stitched using three different materials: yarn, embroidery thread and ribbon.
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