Use up your scraps to make these corner bookmarks.
Make one for you, and several for friends. With needle and thread and wool felt scraps, you can easily work up a handmade corner bookmark.
Rebecca Woolston shares the creative idea and patterns to go with it.
Find more ideas from Rebecca on Instagram, @rebeccamade, on Etsy, or on YouTube. Register for her next embroidery workshop in Salt Lake City on September 12, 2023.
Click here to find the printable for Rebecca’s bookmark designs.
How to Make Cute Corner Bookmarks
I used leaf stitch, satin stitch, split stitch, back stitch, woven wheel stitch, French knots. It’s a good canvas for lots of different types of stitches. Here are some suggestions for success with this project:
- Use wool felt (not craft felt). It is much more sturdy and will hold the stitches better.
- Transfer the design using sticky solvy, which prints the design on a sticker and is water dissolvable.
- Don’t cut out the final size of felt. Cut something bigger so it’s easier to work with and then when you’re finished, you can cut it to size.
- Try to not have too bulky of stitches or knots on the background or it will get caught on your book page.
- Keep the stitches on top fairly tight, so a page corner doesn’t pull at them.
- When finished with the embroidery work, use water to dissolve the design.
Rebecca Snyder Woolston is a freelance graphic and embroidery designer with a special interest in traditional fiber arts. She especially loves quilting, embroidery, and is learning how to sew her own clothes. She is a mother of two, teaches craft workshops, and teaches at the Utah refugee center. She has a passion for the arts in Utah and won the judges choice award at the 46th annual Utah Quilt Show.
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