Magazines

 Okay, this idea came from watching a YouTube by Jacob DeGraaf. He is a designer from The Netherlands of Modern Folk Embroidery. He was supposed to give the program at one of our guild meetings but unexpectedly he had to go to India. He is going to give his program. Sometime this year. On his FlossTube video he talked about designing a three part stitch along for a Japanese magazine. The design will be released for the general public next year. I wanted to see if I could track down the magazines. I went to Etsy and found them. They were shipped from Tokyo and came very quickly. I expected to wait a month or two. But the shipping was quite expensive and they got here yesterday.  What’s weird about these magazines is that they open the opposite way a normal magazine would. The spine is on the right instead of the left. They are all in Japanese. Luckily the numbers are recognizable so I can read what DMC colors they are. The first two magazines have chart pages in them reminding me of Inspirations magazine. 

There are a lot of designs in each magazine along with instructions and illustrations on how to finish them. 

This is two thirds of the design by Jacob. 

The magazines were really fun to look through as they have embroidery, cross stitch, temari and all kinds of other designs. 

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