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japanese stab binding #29: mushrooms

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May 7, 2012

Another intermediate bind.
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japanese stab binding tutorial: kissing fish

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April 30, 2012

An intermediate bind, easy hole pattern. Leave a comment if you have a specific tutorial you would like to see next. **click on an image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern EXIT = needle pointed DOWN and ENTER = needle pointed UP ===== enter 1, leave a tail but don’t…
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japanese stab binding #28: butterfly

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April 25, 2012

I didn’t connect the wings and the antennae, but you could if you wanted. The hole pattern is difficult, but the sewing is intermediate.
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japanese stab binding #27: kissing fish

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March 27, 2012

Difficulty level… intermediate.
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japanese stab binding #26: peacock

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March 25, 2012

During a very long flight to Richmond, Virginia, my friend Mel challenged me to create a bind based on a peacock feather. This is the result. It looks like one to me…does it to anyone else?
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japanese stab binding #25: notches

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March 24, 2012

This bind is fairly straightforward…I’d say advanced beginner/intermediate.
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new stab bind box revealed

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March 21, 2012

So, I finally got annoyed with the box parts gathering dust on my desk and got over my fear of wheat paste. Though it was fairly messy (and don’t look too close to the box as you’ll see some glue spots…oops) I think it worked okay. But now I have…
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Japanese stab binding #24: crocus

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March 20, 2012

This is a fairly advanced binding. The edge-wrapping is much more complicated than my other binds, and the directionality of several holes change (exiting vs. entering) but I liked the way it turned out. There are 53 holes! The instructions are written, if anyone wants to try it. Though the…
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portland, oregon

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March 13, 2012

I spent this past weekend in Portland, Oregon, visiting a friend and celebrating my birthday. Entered a new decade, woo! We drove up to Seattle on Saturday to rock climb and hang out with another friend…and to see Eloise, a linotype machine! I missed the premier of the linotype documentary,…
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too many stab binds!

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March 5, 2012

…to all fit in the nifty box where I keep them. I decided to make one instead of trying to buy a new box. It’s pretty simple, held together with magnets so it can break down and lay flat. I’ve got everything cut out and the magnets are glued into…
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I’m Becca!

Welcome to Becca Making Faces, a blog that started out as a grad school project and has become a place where I post experiments in Japanese stab binding.

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