Jessie Chorley Workshop

The weather may not have been brilliant, but it didn't spoil the lovely day we spent with Jessie Chorley learning about mixed media journals.

Jessie demonstrating a technique

 We started the day looking at examples of Jess's work.  Then we chose a hardback book supplied by Jessie and learnt how to prepare it for our journals by removing some pages and gluing other pages together.

Jess showed us how to use found paper, card, buttons and other things to decorate the front cover and how to decorate pages within the journal.

We spent the morning cutting and gluing and gradually moved onto embellishing our pages with mementos brought from home. 

As you can see we all had plenty of scraps, photos, buttons and bows.

Laying out a page for a photo memento journal.

A lot of thought was needed at times!

 Jessie then taught us how to make and join the tie for the outside of the book. She made suggestions about what to embroider on the tape; how to make a covered button and sew them onto the hard cover of the book.

Finally we learnt how to make a bow to use where we wished on our book.

The results of our days workshop:

 More examples of Jessie's work.

A lovely different workshop enjoyed by everyone.  We look forward to another workshop with Jess next year.

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