This year, I’m doing the 100 Day Stitch Book Challenge 2025 with Ann Wood for my 100 Day Project. I was debating whether to join this Challenge (that started January 17) because I’m also working on Junk Journal January this month. After realizing the stitch book pages were only 5.5” x 7” in size, however, I thought the two Challenges would be manageable for the remainder of this month.
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| Day 3 of the Stitch Book Challenge 2025 |
Stitch Book supplies
The supplies for the Stitch Book Challenge are minimal, easily accessible, and the options are flexible:
- fabric(s) for twenty 5.5” X 7” book pages (this is the base fabric)
- threads for hand stitching
- fabric scraps
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| Improv patchwork scraps (left) and cotton/linen pages for a stitch book. |
I’ll be using a cotton/linen blend fabric from Art Gallery Fabric’s Ink Perfect collection. It’s a remnant from a top I made last year. I was able to cut 12 pages from it.
The scraps I’m using are mostly patchwork strings and trimmings from various improv patchwork pieces I’ve created over the years. I have a small “inventory” of these pieces that I use for improv compositions should a piece require a “spark of something different” or to make a piece of patchwork larger.
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| Day 2 of the Stitch Book Challenge 2025. |
Improvisational Stitching
The Stitch Book Challenge encourages spontaneity in the stitching process. Starting without knowing, and working without a plan. I think my improv patchwork scraps will be an appropriate complement to the stitching on the pages.
It will be good to get into a free-form stitching routine for 100 days with this Stitch Book 2025 Challenge.
