Monday Concertina Sketchbook Collage

Monday Concertina Sketchbook Collage - May

5/31/2023

New Sketchbook Collage colors for the month of May.

Week 1 - I felt like I was doing a little paper mending with this stitch today, which reminded me I have a pair of jeans that could use a little mending 🧵🪡

Week 2 - At first, I was feeling a bit sad when I left the spring greens and yellows I was using back in April
but . . . The peach and orange are so bright and cheery that they are making me just as happy 🧡

Week 3 - I spent some time attempting to duplicate the background paper with the embedded threads you can see above. After using it in the first and second panels this month, I somehow misplaced what I had left.

It might have been a little closer to the original paper if I had used shorter, thinner threads, but for this collage, I think it worked out quite well.

Since then, I've used this technique several times to make collage papers in a variety of thread colors. You can see the step-by-step tutorial HERE.

Week 4 - More netting and more mending stitches.

Week 5 - Do you ever look at the lint you peel off the dryer filter?

It's usually gray and pretty boring but one time I got this pretty peach color with lots of little thread bits embedded. That was so many years ago that I don't remember what I had in the wash that day but I'm glad I saved it. Just one of those oddball things you know you'll use someday : )
You can see peeks of it in each panel of May's concertina sketchbook.