After being away from Moon Myth for three years, I figured I’d better look back at the blog to see how I had put some of the pages together. You guessed it … there wasn’t a word written about process. So I looked at what I had already done and tried to figure out how I’d done it. Then made sure to take plenty of pictures … for the next time.
Attaching the printed canvas was pretty straightforward, made easier when I decided to pre-punch the holes with a ceramic tool before stitching it down with perle cotton cross stitches …
Next I rough-stitched each page onto some 140 lb. watercolor paper cut to 8″H x 10″W (ish), the two pages here showing front and back views …
After which the two pages were pinned together and the top and bottom edges whip stitched with perle cotton …
The sides were next, the open edges closed with detached cross stitches …
with this as the result …
The completed pair of pages was then ladder stitched to the adjacent pages …
with this as the final result of the now-invisible ladder stitching …
Finally, the fore-edge of the pair of pages was randomly cut with some good old-fashioned pinking shears …
while the spine edge was left as is, which has the potential for a wild spine once all the pages are put together …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
Liz~ Your precision always floors me! These detailed photos will be a great resource for you in the future. I can only imagine how challenging it was to step back into this one after so long. This is such an amazing project. Off to the ‘art’…
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it turns out that the using ladder stitch to attach each pair of pages was a change from the first two pairs that I did three years ago. Turns out the ladder stitch was a better solution so, yep, I cut off the first two and reattached them …
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so good to see your Moon Myth coming together!
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’bout time …
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I am always in awe of how you go about your projects not only with creativity but with such precision in thought and execution…especially after having been away from Moon Myth for a few years. It occurred to me that there was a special reason for this break; Moon Myth took a break because one more little grandchild was on her way…Ellis Reed. Now the magic and spirit of Moon Myth will be fully realized…
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I love this thought … that the book was waiting for its little-est audience member
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I love fabric books. Have made a few. They pose interesting problems. Thanks for your detailed photos! I may peruse again when I make my next one.
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I love it when process shots are helpful to more than just myself 😊
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Catching up, realizing that is process too. Today I have been thinking a lot about projects I’ve started and not finished. Pretty sure I could stay busy for a long time just finishing…
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I put a bunch of small projects onto a single large project … which is not finished … ha!
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Oh I do love a process record! I can’t believe how often I wander back through my blog to see if I have notes about this or that. So much happens in between times, I just don’t have the capacity or facility to recall what I did each time. This is a great record – with the why also explained and answered which I always find incredibly helpful – and saves a lot of time!
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and this is one of the significant “whys” of blogging: a record to be referred back to, whether for technical or personal reasons … lest we forget
your blog is a wonderful example of realized potential
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LA – your presentation on process convinces me that there is so much work in the stitching world. Go well. B
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the invisible stitches … put in and then taken out … there used to be way more of them than there are now and I’ve become friends with happy (artful) accidents, but this is a good example of the need to repair functional issues
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