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Sew a Canvas Clutch
Elke Bergeron
This quick and easy painted canvas clutch features colorful geometric shapes and a non-intimidating technique for inserting a zipper. Elke Bergeron shows you how to make the bag from beginning to end, including the leather tassel zipper pull. Scale the pattern up or down to make different sized bags, and make a whole batch of clutches to give to friends as gifts.
DIY Year Planner
Faith Hale
We all know a planner is a very personal thing – it will go with you everywhere for the next year, and it has to work for you. Why not learn how to make a customizable text block planner completely from scratch? Pro bookbinder, Faith Hale, makes it super easy, showing you every step of how to combine blank sheets, printable graph paper, calendar pages, or bullet-style pages for a layout that makes your day-to-day easier to organize. You’ll learn how to make a hardback case using chipboard and book cloth, and you’ll also pick up some foundational bookbinding terms and techniques along the way.
Sew a Kid's Backpack
Annabel Wrigley
In this class, Annabel teaches young sewists how to make a stylish backpack with a few pops of neon – perfect for heading back to school. With a few measurements and some basic sewing supplies, you’ll be able to cut and stitch this backpack over the course of a weekend. This is a great skill-builder class for sewists who want to learn some new techniques, like making pattern pieces from freezer paper, sewing and attaching straps, and assembling a lined bag.
DIY Fabric Shoelaces
Liesl Gibson
Add a creative zip to your step when you make your own shoelaces. Liesl shows you how to make a quick frayed version, as well as a more finished, sewn version. Both pack extra pizazz with pops of bright artist’s tape and nail polish. You’ll have a creative and fun use for extra fabric in your stash.
DIY Room Décor: Color-Blocked Bulletin Board
Courtney Cerruti
Learn how to turn a basic cork panel into a colorful, decorative bulletin board in a snap. Courtney Cerruti shows you how to paint a color-blocked design on cork and add a colorful rope hanger. She then shows you how to spruce up your pushpins by attaching colorful pompoms and paper flowers with hot glue. Hang your finished corkboard in your kitchen or bedroom – it’s perfect for displaying your favorite photos and inspirational imagery.
DIY Room Décor: Decoupaged Jewelry Holder
Courtney Cerruti
If your jewelry collection is in need of some organization, this class will help set you straight. Courtney Cerruti shares a quick and easy idea for a jewelry hanger that utilizes decoupage and a little bit of hardware. Courtney shows you how to properly apply Mod Podge to adhere pretty paper to a wooden placard, and how to paint the beveled edges with a foam brush. After that, install some simple hanging hardware and you’ll be ready to display your necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings.
DIY Room Décor: Painted Fabric Wall Art
Courtney Cerruti
Learn how to transform painted cotton fabric into bold, abstract wall décor. Using expressive brush strokes in a color palette of your choice, Courtney Cerruti shows you how to paint abstractly on fabric, then “frame” your painted fabric in embroidery hoops. The finished pieces are lightweight and super easy to hang – perfect for sprucing up a bedroom or making any space your own.
Flight Bag
Betz White
This structured bag offers great opportunities to learn all about bag construction and finishing. Betz walks through every step of the process – from stabilizing each piece of the bag through adding hardware. Along the way you’ll learn how to create pockets, pleats, zipper panels and straps. Ultimately, you’ll create a bag with structure that you can use to transport your essentials in style, and you can apply these sewing fundamentals to many other projects.
Five-Strand Braid Crafts
Anne Weil
Harken back to your summer camp days and learn how to master the five-stranded braid. Anne Weil shares the standard technique for working this fancy braid and then shows how it can be applied to bracelets, belts, and straps. You’ll learn how to create the grownup version of a friendship bracelet by attaching your braid to a leather band and finishing it off with jewelry hardware. You’ll also learn how to use twine to create a belt, and how to use leather cording to create a seven-strand wristlet key fob. Once you get the hang of this simple braiding technique, you will be able to braid just about any type of fiber, be it yarn, rope or floss.
Japanese Side Sewn Sketchbook
Jody Alexander
Learn four different stitches for this historical Japanese bookbinding structure: Four-hole, Noble, Hemp Leaf and Tortoise Shell. Single sheets are stacked and bound to create this simple and elegant binding. These are great books to use for sketchbooks, journals, photo albums and artists' books.
Learn four different stitches for this historical Japanese bookbinding structure: Four-hole, Noble, Hemp Leaf and Tortoise Shell. Single sheets are stacked and bound to create this simple and elegant binding. These are great books to use for sketchbooks, journals, photo albums and artists' books.
Learn how to:
What you’ll get:
Here’s what you’ll need:
Materials:
- bone folder
- straight edge ruler
- awl
- cutting knife (optional if you tear paper)
- needle
- clothes pins
- one sheet of 8.5 x 11 cover weight paper (will be halved to make two cover pieces)
- 5 -10 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 text weight or light weight paper (will be halved to make the book pages)
- thread (linen thread is best for bookbinding but for this binding you can experiment with other string or thread)
- pencil
Downloads:
- Preparing paper and cover for binding
- Creating sewing stations for binding
- Four-hole, nobile, hemp leaf, and tortoise shell binding stitches
What you’ll get:
- An easy-to-follow lesson on how to create a Japanese side sewn sketchbook
- 10 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
- Itemized supply list
- Downloadable PDF pattern included
- Step-by-step instruction by artist Jody Alexander
- The ability to leave comments, ask questions and interact with other students
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Japanese Side Sewn Sketchbook Reviews
110 users recommended this class to a friend
Sheila Yamaguchi
Excellent way to decorate my shelves some because the shelves looks so messy.
More than 3 months ago
Betty Barrett
The application was easy to understand and apply successfully. The chit-chat between the two people demonstrating was a bit distracting. I would have preferred Step 1 - through Step 6 and then the discussion about paper companies and how to gauge the size paper needed to the book dimensions.
More than 3 months ago