Slightly more sedate
Oh oh oh! I fiiiiinally found a cork fabric that makes a version of the needle books I like! I know not everyone is quite as enamored of the sparkle pony glitter plastic as I am (though really, I also know damn well I'm not the only one who loves it). But all of the other things I'd found had been disappointing in some way, and all the other cork fabric I'd found tended to flake and crack when you folded it. But I was at my local fabric shop with a friend, and she spotted this, and it just...behaves [...]
It has pockets!
So, the thing everyone wanted from the little needlebook pattern was a way to keep stitch markers. I confess my first inclination was 'punch a couple holes somewhere, thread a safety pin through, put them on that. But you can also totally add an actual pocket!
Amused
Remember how I told you the wee tiny needlebook needed an option to have pages in it? Yeeeeeeeah. So that's totally going to be a thing now. I shouldn't be, but I remain unspeakably amused.
Remind me
"Remind me what you do for a job again?" "Uuuuum...huh. Well. So you see...it's complicated." (whispers: but also super fun) What I'm actually doing here is working up a version of the little needlebook to have a pocket for stitch markers, because everything is better with pockets. But it looks suspiciously like craft hour at the sparkle pony school for wayward toddlers with low impulse control.
Solved
Ooooh, you know how I said these needed a 'page' in the middle of them to feel even more bookish and to give you a place to pin things? Yeah, yeah well it turns out finding the correct yarn to go with sparkly pony glitter plastic extravaganza was more challenging than you might think, and my stash had absolutely nothing suitable. Luckily a trip to my delightful local yarn shop (waves at Cashmere Goat, if you're visiting midcoast Maine do yourself a favor and swing by) solved that problem.
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