Slashed Fabric Journal Cover TUTORIAL

[@dawnswanson4203]

that is similar to making a rag quilt, A tip for washing and drying is to put it in a pillow case. the dryer helps fray it more, just keep it in the pillow case and open outside.

[@dianeschneider7442]

It took 6 months but I'm finally making one of these journal covers. I think I've watched it another 4 times today. 😊

[@49dragonflies]

Yay, thank you! Have fun! 😃❤️

[@debbiev.1311]

A true rags-to-riches or trash-to-treasure love story...perfection!! Just as you were saying "giving it a haircut", I did too!! 😘🤭✂️

[@bozomahoney]

I did this in the 90s -- a pillow for my niece and nephew - their first initial snipped out. It was fun!

[@house_of_chaos_art]

Liebe Barbara, das ist eine großartige Idee. Ich werde das definitiv auch machen. Ich stimme dir absolut zu, nicht immer neue Sachen zu kaufen, sondern das zu benutzen was man hat. Damit kann man auch wunderschöne Dinge erschaffen. Liebe Grüße Kerstin

[@angelaarnold4255]

I’ve never seen anything like this before. This is so fun! Can’t wait to see where this cover takes you. Even your “Oh No!!” worked out ok. So cool. Thanks for sharing!!♥️♥️♥️

[@junerobbins6871]

I've seen this done by a man crafter He and his wife craft together making journals. He makes all of the covers on his old Singer treddle sewing machine, and she does the rest. I can't rember thier names, but they are very talented. His name might be Clint His name is Clint and her name is Chelle. They are the Rambling Crafters. I love all of thier journals !! The fabric industry calls this Cheneal

[@waboosje]

Yes, it's Chelle and Clint Ratcliff and it's called Chenille. Just wrote it in the comments and now see yours lol. 😊

[@wrenbayley]

OH! Idea! Neon thread would be so fun to sew with!!!

[@luiseheinzl]

Holy cow! What do I see here? I need something like that in my life! 😮❤

[@lake.wolf.creative]

What a fun project! I love the finished journal cover and the repurposing of materials. Thank you for sharing another wonderful junk journal idea.

[@jeanieferretti4203]

I seen something like this in one of my quilting books and magazines from craft stores. I learned that from my grandmother. She kept everything. She would make patterns for clothes from grocery bags ❤ thank you for spreading the word.

[@49dragonflies]

That’s amazing! 😊❤️

[@jeanieferretti4203]

@@49dragonfliesI also saw something like this on a quilting program and they used an old toothbrush and roughed it up. I just remembered that ❤️

[@BgBw-l5u]

I have a special tool I found in my sewing stash to do this. I never used it. Now it has a purpose and is now with my junk journal tools! Thank you for the inspiration!

[@49dragonflies]

Wonderful! 😊❤️

[@jeannetimme7337]

LOVE it! If my desk wasn't such a disaster, I'd make one right NOW! Or my dining table is totally clean. Hmmmm . . .

[@miraclewells8010]

Instead of a hidden spine use some colorful thread to sew the pages in and it will show on the piece of denim without fabric.

[@birgitbonde6677]

Wonderful project🎉 Maybe a booklet of small collages with fabric/paper (and quotes)😊

[@beverlymccall7575]

Barbara, What a fun ida! You make it look so easy to construct this slashed fabric journal cover. I'm saving this video for future use.

[@lauriejjournals]

I absolutely love this, and am always blown away by the new ideas you come up with. I’m definitely going to try one of these. Since you’re thinking of a hidden binding, maybe it would be cool with paper bag journal signatures. I love the crinkly sound too! Thanks so much for being so generous with sharing your techniques and processes! This is another fantastic video.

[@tflo5768]

I use a similar technique on my cloth feminine pads. I use a seam ripper to make the slashes through the fabric, and it works great!

[@RobinfromCA]

What a fun cover and great way to use of fabric scraps! An idea for a solution to your fabric glue. Take a snapshot of the ingredients on your Action fabric glue and then compare it to other fabric glues to see if there is the same formula on another brand. So many products are made by the same company who just put different labels on their containers.

[@49dragonflies]

Thanks for the tip! ❤️

[@craftyone5419]

Very uniquely different! Completely awesome!❤❤❤

[@MsJoyceG]

Thank you, thank you for expanding my horizons, again. This will make a comfortable ,to the hand, journal.

[@myhappyspace4533]

What a fun way to make a journal

[@chiagirlmyfatcat896]

Hello Barbara from Vienna! Wow, for me, a hard no ... but you have the patience. "Fabric slashing"... never have heard of that. Love the result with denim.❤

[@cherylknight1591]

I always try to repurpose everything or donate. Trash can be beautiful as well. Love this option. Thank you soooo much

[@celieaguayo9000]

Such a cute little journal cover ❤

[@prof.mommyarty]

Oh, I wasn't expecting a slasher movie this early in the day 😲😄. It looks awesome, reminds me of the sleeves of my 80's denim jacket. I had so many rings I was constantly entangled😄 so much fun fraying for hours though. My new machine has great clearance for thickness. Damn it, I'm putting this on my to do list as well🙈. I love your 'chipmunk ' moments🙊. Yes, reusing materials is awesome! As my Gran taught me 'waste not want not', she was my favourite lady of all time. A seam ripper might be easier than scissors maybe🤷. I usually fray by hand but in this case the machine definitely seems easier for this. Awesome, I love it sweetheart. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖

[@kyliecrump2075]

Wow i absolutely love the way this turned out,

[@MaureenAstrid]

❤❤❤ I love it! The raggedy look, how you explained it all, the crinkly inside ❤❤❤ will you show us the making of the signature(s) too sweetie?

[@49dragonflies]

Thanks sweetie! Once I figure out what to make, sure! 😊❤️

[@michellehrowe360]

I love, LOVE this!!! So unique and creative!

[@lenalossev1839]

That's really really cool! Never saw it before! Working on an altered book; themed "sewing and fashion" Now I know what to make for the cover!!! Thank you so much Barbara 🤗🕊️

[@49dragonflies]

Wonderful! Have fun! ❤️

[@nancynorris9822]

I forgot about this method. We did it making a quilt block called chenille. Turned out great! Never thought to make a journsl cover! You are a clever girl! TFS🤔

[@ritagenz1519]

Beautiful! I can well imagine, that something with water, the ocean, ocean animals will fit very well with this blue cover! I am curious, for what you will decide! Love from Rita! 😘🌊🐠🦈🐟🐳🐋👙🏖️⛱️🌞😎

[@nairafoganholi6563]

Dear Barbara! ❤ Wow! This is absolutely amazing ! I do not know if i can do that but i will certainly try!!!! I love when you use denin! Have a wonderful day and weekend!!!! ❤

[@risamateo8003]

Love this! Such a great way to use up all the cool scraps

[@lotusflowerpassion]

what a cute little cover 💖

[@dbabybear]

I got a bit nervous seeing the washing machine used at a junk journal video. 😜 btw the 49dragonflies song is singing in my head while watching this.

[@49dragonflies]

😊🥰

[@Aarentheartist]

Absolutely gorgeous❤🎉

[@michellew.2876]

This is such a fun technique! I've done this with papers for Dephemerember!!!!

[@marls13.]

Never have I seen this before thankyou for sharing

[@christisartworld]

❤❤❤I love this idea so much ❤❤❤ danke, dass du deine Ideen immer mit uns teilst. Ich finde es bewundernswert, wie viel Kreativität in dir steckt. Ganz liebe Grüße aus NÖ 😘

[@elzanneshepperson6729]

Hi Barbara. A small jeans journal like this is on my list of projects to try. Suggestion for pages; use a combination of your jeans gelli plate kit, some of your other kits and packaging papers on which you can create your own art & collages.

[@49dragonflies]

Great idea! Thanks! ❤️

[@pambotter355]

Barbara, what a great idea. I too like the second the best although the first is great too. These turned out beautifully! TFS!❤

[@danaelizabeth427]

I love the look of this journal! I like small soft cover journals the best, like this one. Thank you for sharing how you made it. I am definitely going to give this technique a go. ❤ Love it!!!!!

[@yvonnesaunders550]

Very cool, Barbara. You do some of the most unique projects! For pages... I would go for the sound, personally. So, packing papers, vellum, etc. Should make the whole thing lay soft in your hands. 😉❤️

[@49dragonflies]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@KateriBurnett]

Hello Barbara. I was surprised to seeing you doing. I use to do it when I was in middle school about 100 years ago😁 not really but it’s been a minute like 50 years😊🤣 I love the look of this. Why did I not think of doing a journal cover I’ll never know. Love it.

[@doreethorpe4800]

Love this! Definitely going to try!❤

[@sheilaironside8099]

So cool, and so fun! Love this! Thank you!🥰❤

[@bluecrystal002c]

Love this, with more colors is wonderful

[@waboosje]

Chelle and Clint Ratcliff made a couple of this sort of covers, they are called Chenille and very funny. I think its about 3 years ago. Still planned to make 1 but never gound the time lol. 😊❤

[@MelindaDavis]

I have been making these kinds of journal cover for a few years now

[@RobynBarnes-zz1gg]

Thanks for the great tutorials. I really enjoyed having a go at this and was so happy with my cover. I will have to try the slashed paper one now 😊

[@renig5059]

What a fab project🎉 love the result… thx🤩

[@marybethschuiteman484]

Jumping right in, I HAVE to try this NOW!

[@michellehrowe360]

me too!

[@ahgetmydrift]

Hey girl, I just made one. Not exactly because I have sewn it straight across the top up and down horizontally so it has boxed in stitches, WHY? because I always do before paying attention, lol but hey it still looks good. I love you and how you do you to get me to do me. You're my jump start from the ground up. When I'm in a slump you always cheer me up. You're an inspiring lady, my dear woman. 💋💋🙏

[@49dragonflies]

Aaaaw that makes me so happy! ☺️🥰❤️

[@ahgetmydrift]

@@49dragonflies 🥰😍🤩😘You, make me happy! 💞

[@savvyheart369]

Oh, Barbara, I have been away too long. I just cleaned out my closet and have a pair of blue jeans that I discarded. But stashed them in my fabric pile. It was meant to be, I must use them to make some beautiful jj covers. What serendipity! Perfect timing to find your video. ❤✨️

[@zeldac1484]

Absolutely love this!!

[@snoppynewall4922]

Barbara, I use a delicates wash bag to put my scraps in to wash, then any loose threads will also stay in the bag and not all over your washing I learnt the hard way 😂😂

[@49dragonflies]

Great idea! 😊👍🏻

[@kristinluvsdogs]

Can’t wait to try this!❤

[@wonderingstarz]

Love this idea!! Mine turned out awesome!!! Thank you!!!! HUGZ

[@49dragonflies]

Awesome! You rock! 😃👍🏻

[@theresaconway-hayes]

Well... I DID it. I made one of these slashed fabric journal covers. Now I just need to throw it in the washer and then attach to my journal that I'm working on for Dephemerember. My Fiskar shears, the small ones, worked great for this.

[@49dragonflies]

Wonderful! 😃❤️

[@luannfischer747]

Sewing thru that spine area and adding beads to the threads would be very cool

[@wrenbayley]

CUTE idea!!!

[@PetraLeporin]

ABSOLUT GENIAL! Ich liebe diese fusselige Etwas 🥰. Muss sofort los und passenden Stoff raussuchen....

[@allisonjames2923]

Love this! I want to make a memory journal for my best furry friend, Loki, who died in April & who I miss terribly. And this kind of cover would be perfect since he did go through a destructapuppy stage. Some of his very well loved toys that are basically already scraps, could become scraps for his journal cover (including a bit of the car seatbelt he munched on because he didn’t like wearing it lol. I wonder if I could sew a cute puppy face instead of just lines 🤔💕🥺🐶🐾 It would have to be a cartoon looking dog as anything beyond that is beyond my paltry sewing skills, but how cute would it be to have to colours peeping out to make the face of a floofy person 💕

[@49dragonflies]

Aaaaaw what an adorable idea to honor sweet Loki! ❤️

[@ragsofheartplanning]

Oh yeah, I need to make this for my art JJ

[@blackcoffeeandwildflowers]

How fun! They both turned out amazing 🤩. I really like the straight lines. I’m not sure making the crazy stitches would work as well. But it’s always worth trying! Thanks for more wonderful inspiration! Hugs ❤️🤗

[@swannwillow9476]

Looks great, can't wait to see what you do next. Have a wonderful weekend ❣️

[@49dragonflies]

Thanks, you too! Didn’t you want to go to sleep? 🙈

[@swannwillow9476]

@@49dragonflies oh, I often say I want to sleep but I suffer from severe insomnia so I seldom do. It's not all bad, I have more time to watch your videos 😂😘

[@BarbaraTuma]

This is so amazing! Love it, love it, love it! ❤ And I'm looking forward to see your ideas for the inside pages... I can't come up with any suggestions. Total blank....

[@susanmorales8675]

What a great look. I can’t wait to try one. I just love the denim as it frays so well. Thanks Barbara.

[@heathersullivan8494]

Hi Barbara. This is such a unique idea. I really love how the cover came out. ❤😊

[@VickieAllen1109]

Love it!! 💜💜💜

[@wendyk2557]

Love this idea!

[@toniscott1029]

I love this cover! I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out in the end!❤

[@49dragonflies]

Thanks! Me too! 😂

[@toniscott1029]

@@49dragonflies it will be a surprise for all of us! 😁😂 But I know it's gonna be beautiful!

[@glendajohanson9846]

I love fabric shredding! I actually made spines for those little denim travel journals I made from one of your videos! It gives them such a fun look! Thanks for sharing your ideas!

[@matildaenlund6679]

❤what a great journal cover. Maybe your pages can be a mixture of fabric pages and packaging paper pages… xx

[@dorothyviljoen8888]

Love it🎶🦋 Will make an arty cover for my art journal💃🌻

[@Broglia123]

Absolutely love this. You are so creative xx

[@itssssandraa]

Very cute

[@tharp769]

This is adorable, Barbara!🤩 I have several old pairs of jeans from my son(adult son-so lots of fabric😁). And... I recently treated myself to a pair of Guggenhein fabric scissors... half off$! The tips are supposed to be sharp, too. This project would be a great test. IF I have the patience.😵‍💫 lol And if my machine can handle it.😳 A "denim"/heavy duty needle helps the less robust machines.👍 A little "tip": I have some nylon bags for washing delicates in. That may help to wrangle in those loose thread & fibers. Just a thought I had.💗 I always love your videos & projects... & YOU!😍

[@49dragonflies]

Thank you and great tip! ❤️

[@susananderson8428]

Perfect timing for me to see this video! I just "dugout" my sewing machine (which was buried on my paper crafting table) to replace a zipper!! Now I can do sewing on and in my journals (until the machine gets buried again!). I am not even close to as neat a crafter as you are, so it's hard for me to switch when I get one thing going. I can sew things or paint, stamp, emboss, dye, spray, etc things! Now that my machine is out, I need to find all the fabric and journal covers, cards, flips, and whatever I need to be sewn before it gets buried again (or do a better job of organizing and decluttering). Love the frayed journal. And yes, I like the one with more colors showing, but you could probably spray the frayed edges (carefully) to amp up the color. Just an idea. TFS. ❤❤❤

[@carolm4094]

Fun cover!

[@donitamoore9748]

Love this idea for a journal cover. I’ve used it making blankets/quilts using flannel. Lots of tutorials out there for the process and some are exquisite. The reason your first cover is more frayed is because it was washed with other items. I’ve always used a couple towels to wash and dry with to make it fray more. Thanks for sharing!❤

[@lorigreenberg]

Thanks! I can’t wait to try this!

[@ladonnaloehrke]

Such a cool cover!! I have lots of fabric scraps that would work wonderfully for this!!

[@caroltanzi29]

Barbara: as usual your project is so creative. I can't wait to see where you take this one. Carol From California

[@denisegardner2373]

Love it Barbara. I do love messy messy. Like how the colors peek through. TFS and inspiring. ❤❤Nebraska

[@Mrsrokkergrrl]

Love this, I'm going to try to make one. 😊

[@petraskunstwerkstatt1596]

👏👏👏eine tolle Idee, liebe Barbara 🎉🎉🎉und auch noch mit Jeans ❤❤❤ich liebe Jeans-Upcycling❤❤❤ sehr schöne Arbeit, da sieht man mal wieder, dass man auch mit den kleinsten Stoffstücken etwas kreatives zaubern kann...👍😁 ...mein Cover hatte noch viel winzigere Fetzen 😂 habe auch ein Sandwich gemacht, aber mit wasserlöslichem Soluvlies anstatt der oberen Jeanslage... Dankeschön fürs Zeigen 🥰 Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass der tolle "Kruscheleffekt" vom Prototyp, durch die Reibung der anderen Kleidungsstücke entstanden ist... ...ich hätte viel zuviel Angst mit den Fäden meine Waschmaschine zu schrotten... denn mein Flusensieb ist schwer zugänglich... Ich persönlich nehme gerne eine alte Kleiderbürste, Fransenkamm (vom Teppich) und etwas Schmirgelpapier um diesen "Lotterlook" zu erhalten... Bin schon gespannt, wie es weitergeht 🎉 Ganz liebe Grüße Petra ❤

[@49dragonflies]

Super Idee mit dem Fransenkamm und Schmirgelpapier! 👍🏻😊❤️

[@maritaranda7782]

Love this🤩😍

[@mellik2522]

I love how this turned out. I’ve been wanting to try a denim journal. Will def have to try this technique.

[@tracilevine7040]

What a fun and creative technique. I love the things that you come up with and present. I have a bit of denim left from the first prompt of last years Dephemerember (butterfly and 3 torn things)... This is the perfect project for it to be used for! Thank you so much for another wonderful video and idea/tutorial 💗💗🥰

[@sarahscraftyallsorts6482]

I bought a sari in my charity shop for £1 I’ve made a journal cover from it and there is plenty left over for more .

[@49dragonflies]

Wonderful 😊

[@maramakesjournals2319]

Very, very nice! Thank you! 💜💜💜

[@SoSimpleruth6]

O segundo ficou mais interessante. 🙏

[@albamercuri9914]

Stupendo 😍 come tutte le cose che crei! ❤️🙏🍀💯🍀🙏❤️

[@mariaconti9704]

This is go nice! Many years ago a friend mad a coat with this technique, but on the bias, and she brushed the slits. The fabric on the bias doesn’t unravel as much. You may want to try it. All said, I loved your covers. TYFS🤗❤️😘🫶🏻🤩🤩🤩

[@alphascarbrough1298]

Throw it in the washer and dryer. It will ruffle up beautifully.

[@49dragonflies]

Don’t have a dryer….

[@joycemccullough7856]

Love this so much. Thanks so much for sharing. Can’t wait to try this!💙

[@katherinetwilliams4254]

Love this idea and the cover! I hope you saved the threads you cut off. I repurpose my extra threads for when I want them as texture On my pages and ephemera. I keep a little jar with cut off threads.

[@sherrydennis2419]

Oh my goodness! I need to make this, so cool!

[@malindawalk9418]

There goes hubby's denim.

[@janetgeist8505]

😂😅😊

[@RobinfromCA]

😂

[@tracilevine7040]

🤣🤣🤣💗

[@49dragonflies]

😂😂😂