{"id":1441,"date":"2013-03-09T07:59:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T11:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2013-02-16T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:08:55","slug":"chevron-washi-tape-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/chevron-washi-tape-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Washi Tape Chain Stitch Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1442\" alt=\"Chevron Washi Tape journal handmade by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x373.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chevron-Washi-Tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x331.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love Washi Tape! A friend from Japan sent me a <a title=\"Droolworthy Washi Tape Care Package Straight From Japan!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/droolworthy-washi-tape-care-package-straight-from-japan\/\">huge care package of washi tape<\/a>, a thin Japanese masking tape with designs printed on it ( you can even get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0052UNYEC\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0052UNYEC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ruthblea-20\">washi tape on Amazon<\/a>)- I used the tape to create this pretty striped pattern on raw book board, and then sealed the whole thing with a thin varnish so the tape won&#8217;t peel up. The stitching pattern is new too, a variation on coptic stitch (no idea if it has a name, I kind of made it up)\u00c2\u00a0that I sewed\u00c2\u00a0with\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002MKREO6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002MKREO6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ruthblea-20\">waxed linen thread<\/a>. That white circle is my embossing seal but you can&#8217;t quite make it out in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see more photos of this book on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ruthbleakley\/sets\/72157627789245350\/with\/6198507519\/\">Red Striped Washi Tape Journal photo set<\/a> on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1443\" alt=\"Endpages on washi tape journal handmade by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x334.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/interiori-of-washi-tape-journal-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x297.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1444\" alt=\"red and purple washi tape book handmade by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x369.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/red-and-purple-washi-tape-book-handmade-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x328.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Washi Tape! A friend from Japan sent me a huge care package of washi tape, a thin Japanese masking tape with designs printed on it ( you can even get washi tape on Amazon)- I used the tape to create this pretty striped pattern on raw book board, and then sealed the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,99],"tags":[46,228,170,161],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}