Vintage Lace Journal Wrap Skirt Closure Tutorial - Part 1 Selecting Supplies

All right today, I am sharing a tutorial on how I do the wrap, skirt closures for Junk journals, they're very simple, at least my way of doing it. It'S very basic, but I do have some lovely supplies to choose from and what I've done here is just gone ahead and picked a whole bunch that might work, and I wanted to just show you what to look for when you're thinking of doing that yourself and One thing I have found is that it does work best to use monochromatic colors so, for example, make them all all the layers more towards the white or the cream or the the darker ecru or the blue or whatever. But you can use mixed of course, and accent Pieces Just make the colors seem to pop, but for the actual layering of the skirt. I found that if you use the same color tone, it does work better. So what I'm going to do is share a couple of different options and just try and talk about the different types of pieces of lace that I'm talking about. So we've got your basic ruffle. You know the one that's going to show the most and then you've got your supporting band, which I I call these ones and then your your collar or your yoke, that's going to be the little decorative piece, and these are the ones that I'm talking about. So I'm going to go through them a little bit more individually and these ones the the band I'm gon na leave for the last, because they're pretty straightforward and then, of course, you can choose whether you want to add the ribbons for the actual closure. Tying part part out of sorry, silk or out of another piece of fine lace or whatever your you choose. So I'm gon na just put these over to the side and start maybe with my favorite piece. So I've made two already for the journal collection that I'm working on. I have three more to do so. I'Ve got to come up with three different options today, and I am in love in love in love with this piece of lace, I think it's called Tumblr and I've used part of this beautiful collar to make a pocket for R2 for some other journals. So I'm left with this piece here make sure you can all see and it's got this beautiful neck Edge and then the scalloped Edge that would go drape over the shoulders so that I'm thinking is going to be my base skirt and when I attach it to The journal it's going to appear as if it's a little bit more gathered because it will lie a little bit straighter and then I found this piece piece of vintage applique and it's got these somewhat gaudy rhinestones and pearls on them. But I love it. I think it's just such a beautiful complement to this particular piece, so these collars and um Yokes and so on. They make absolutely beautiful, skirt, aprons or whatever you want to call them, and so this was my the one that I decided for sure. I'M gon na do this, and then I have to decide what I'm going to put underneath it, and I'm thinking probably this video is the first part for sure is the talking out loud part where I'm making decisions. What I don't want to hide, though, is this um the insert where I can feed some lace through, so I might have to really think that, through before I cover it, but you see what I mean. The color of the dimension looks just so pretty with the same color underneath it, so that is that one and then I am going to show you some of these specialty pieces. This is a gorgeous color, absolutely gorgeous, I'm pretty sure it's antique! It'S just so perfect. This will fit all the way around. A journal journals for me are about 13 inches and, let's see yep, that's going to be just fine I'll, probably just you know let the ends flap over or just tuck them under slightly when I sew it all together, but that I'm in love with, I just Think it's absolutely beautiful this, because it's a little bit on the heavier side is probably going to look better with a finer piece of lace underneath it and then I would put something even heavier underneath that one and longer so see right here. You can see this coming together. That looks beautiful. If I were to use a heavier lace it would. It would kind of distract from the detail on this lovely yolk, this coat color, and so that's that piece colors. Here'S another gorgeous applique, look at that! Look at that color. How stunning is this? This one is easy to do you just Stitch through here and like basting stitches, and then you gather it and that becomes your ruffled top layer. And then you can um hide your stitching with some beautiful beaded trim or whatever you would like, but this one stunning love it love it love it. Then I have this one that looks wedding dressish and it can be used a number of ways very soft and floppy. So it's going to have a real nice ruffle to it and I'm debating on which way to cut it, which could be so many different ways. You could cut out each applique and use it afterwards, but I'm thinking of cutting it this way right above the sequence there, and then I've got my strip which I would probably use with this pretty vase which I've had for a long time. Knowing that I would find just the right project to use it on and look how beautiful this one is. Isn'T that just so sweet again, we've got the you know the insert there, but I think this would be so pretty in here. Maybe we'll see. So that's an option for that. One. I'Ve got that one out I'll show you this it's too much. Can you see it's okay, but it's just way too busy way way too much. So this one is a very strong Contender for my project and then I've got this Oddball piece which I'm sure you've all seen these yolks or whatever you can. I would just cut it right along here and then I'd have one long band and that would be my support band. That would go underneath all of the lace to give it some structure, and then you would still have this lovely piece that you could use uh down the page of a journal and it would drape down so nicely make a pocket or a tuck spot. So that's what I do with those kind of funky pieces that you love the lace but you're going. I don't know what I can make with it, but I'll probably think of something. This is when you pull them out, because I'm just so pleased with um what I've got and what I tried out on the other two journals they turned out so well, then I've got this beautiful, beautiful, Alan Conley's, so that could go over top of a ruffle. Now this one I've used already on one of the skirts one of the journals, and it is a little bit more white creamy white. But this one here and I'm not meaning to jump from lace to lace. But just give you all the options as I'm seeing them and as I'm auditioning them for my project. So this tone with this tone goes better. That'S what I'm trying to explain is the colors go better, but if one of them is too textured, it's just not going to do the rest of it justice, but that's got potential and look at that. Even the contrast is beautiful. I love it so this one. I would gather a little bit in fact, I'm really loving that you see it. How pretty is that all righty, and then one of the other skirts that I made I used just this popular one from Hobby Lobby. It'S amazing! It is so perfect for these skirts. Just absolutely beautiful because it's got the poof there, and then you can just put some beaded trim or whatever and then drape something like a longer lace underneath it. You know these really wide ones and perhaps just gather it a bit just so that it gives it that beautiful layered look just as an example, so that option and then what have I got here, these I've pulled to show you for the the um. What did I call it? The band? This is what I used on one of them, so this is um. I think it's fairly modern lace. I think it's Venice lace as well. I'M not sure if I got it at the Vintage store or where I got it from very strong, very sturdy, and I wouldn't sew through that. I would um either hand baste it along or just put some dabs of glue on it, as I did with the the band that I made for the one other Journal. These are great. You know these cotton um doily parts that you crocheted bits that you get off the end of a pillowcase, this kind of lace. These are great because they're, they're, strong and yet they're they're got beautiful detail on them and they aren't definitely vintage. So they keep up the Integrity of your design. If you want to go that way, then this as well could be used and it would add a beautiful layer, especially with these colors see all that, and this one is a smaller. I think this is from a tablecloth. I use quite a bit of this one already and you would just cut a long strip. You know say: 13 14 inches, however long you want it, and that would be your support band underneath all the layers and then what I would do is um. You know attach them. Pin them in place, like I said, baste them so just very long, loose stitches with some thread and then a few dabs of glue. And if you can so with your machine because that'll make it a lot more sturdy. As you pull it to tie it and then Stitch the sorry ribbon underneath so those are options that I'm going to show you what I might do for one of my journals is, if you remember I did. I used the the um soft teal colored applique on the front, and it was one of these giant um, I'm gon na call it a yoke. I don't know if it's color or a yolk. It was just a very big sort of odd sized piece, but I could see the potential, so I I cut it and I've used the one half of it already, but this one I can use and still gather like so and put it on top of my Other Fabrics which I'm considering to be this blue - and these are also pieces that I got from Marlene from uniquely Ella and see how this look just goes so beautifully. I think it would then I've also got a vintage scarf that I can cut apart and you know maybe put some trim behind it. Just give up, give it a little bit of um ruffling detail. So those are my pieces and I could probably make a whole lot more than three, but I wanted to show you different options so that you get the idea of what to look for when you're, considering making a little layered wrap skirt like this, and then I've Also got scarves if you can't find lace, just find some pretty scarves and cut them up to the shape that you like and strips and Ruffles, and then you know, use the beautiful edges and gather them together a little bit and go from there. You would be surprised at how beautiful those kinds of things are, when you add them to your journals. So my next step will be showing you what I have decided on as my three wrap skirts for the next journals, and I will have cut the pieces of lace and we'll have them in front of me. And then we can start attaching them together and go from there. So thank you for watching and we'll chat again soon, bye for now.