Bookmarks

Unexpected and sad circumstances made us travel to Belgium last weekend. We were greeted by cloudy weather and sad friends.

Luckily glancing through the books we bought in Belgium brought some solace.

I marked my favorite ‘must-do’ projects with homemade fabric bookmarkers (the idea came from pinterest).

We bought Stofvoor doe-het-zelvers, Zo Geknipt, and De Poppen van Tante Hilde. 

The books are in Dutch so the text is maybe a little useless for all English-speaking people among you, but the images are very self-explanatory.

As you can see plenty of projects in the pipeline!

Some tips for making your own bookmarks: Stitch the fabric together close to the side of the paperclip. Consequently slide the fabric to the curved side of the paperclip.

Before cutting the fabric, I ironed fusible interfacing on the backside of the fabric and iron-on-vinyl on the front side.

The sides of some fabrics are really nice and it is worthwhile making some bookmarks with those parts of your fabric scraps.