1/25/2024 0 Comments Cros stitch designer tatianaI managed to pick up a couple of good ideas from other ones but after that it was mostly trial and error. Most of the tutorials used real books as the base for a clutch but straight away I knew that option wasn’t for me. I started with googling DIYs for book clutches. How did you develop your process for making book clutches? And just like that ‘Mrs.Chaplin’ was born. The idea of earning money by doing something I really enjoyed was very tempting. It wasn’t perfect but it still left all my friends speechless. Lots of wasted thread and countless needle pricks later I finished my first clutch. I’ve spent several sleepless nights looking through years of OLT’s blog to find out more about her process and supplies she used. My budget refused even to discuss this so I became obsessed with an idea how to make a book clutch myself. One day I came across an Olympia Le Tan clutch in some fashion magazine. What made you want to pursue handmade embroidered-book clutches? I guess I was somewhat 12 and kept forgetting who was who to whom (it was exactly that confusing). I remember once when the boys were fishing I was sitting ashore drawing genealogy trees for ‘The Silmarillion’. And that’s when books became my best friends. But usually I was left out of the ‘boys only’ games. I was the only girl among about 10 boys (my brother, my many cousins and also neighbor boys). When I was a kid I used to spend all summer at my grandmother’s country village. It’s a shame I don’t have that much time for reading now. Have you always been a reader?Īs long as I remember myself I was always with a book. Wizard of Oz embroidery, Tatiana Kononovaĭescribe your connection to books. And so there I was, with literally no idea ‘what’s next’, what I was going to do and whether I would be able to survive two kids. I got scared I wouldn’t be able to balance it all so we dropped the idea of a café. For a while I had been making plans to open a curry place in Moscow with my friend but soon I found out I was pregnant with my second baby. For some strange reason it was translated to Russian as ‘What’s Next?’ which was the best description of my mental state at that moment. In my ‘conscious’ embroidery experience (I mean when I was already 30, not 7) that was a Russian edition of ‘The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My’ by Tove Jansson. What was your first embroidered piece, and what motivated you to undertake it? It was fun for a while but quite soon I switched to other hobbies. I think I was about 7 years old when my mother bought me a small embroidery kit – that was a red plastic hoop and some easy cross-stitch design – some floral pattern, probably. What was your first exposure to embroidery, and what did you think of it?
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