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12 Days of Crafting, Day 11: A family Christmas book

Create a family Christmas book to record your memories of the holidays over the years. Personalize the book with a cover embroidered after tracing a child's drawing. (Megan Cooley)
Megan Cooley
Create a family Christmas book to record your memories of the holidays over the years. Personalize the book with a cover embroidered after tracing a child's drawing. (Megan Cooley)
Create a family Christmas book to record your memories of the holidays over the years. Personalize the book with a cover embroidered after tracing a child's drawing. (Megan Cooley)

Tonight, you’re just going to get a sneak peek.

This is a journal cover I embroidered and sewed today. The intent is to use this journal, which I picked up at a yard sale last summer, to record my family’s holiday memories. My daughter traced the Christmas images and wrote the words “merry Christmas,” which I then traced onto muslin and embroidered.

My construction of the cover was a bit off, though, and as I sat down to write up the tutorial I figured out why. Tomorrow, some seam ripping and a better, easier project for you to follow.

Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

* This story was originally published as a post from the marketing blog "DwellWellNW." Read all stories from this blog