How the cover of a book comes together is different from book to book. For my latest book, how the cover came together is especially interesting and so I thought I'd share the story with you. At one point, we were all thinking about white back stitches with sans serif lettering on red fabric. But then somewhere during the process, we decided to change it to white satin stitches with slightly different lettering on coral fabric.
Even before that, my first attempt was making red back stitches on white fabric.
We all knew that the other cover images would fall in place like this ... and we were going back and forth as I tried all of these different stitches and fabrics. It took a lot of time but it was really fun and exciting.
Once it was decided that it would be white satin stitches on coral fabric, they asked me to not stitch the letter O in the word ALONG so that the designer could place a piece of embroidered work right there at the O. SUCH a cute idea!
I worked during daylight and well into the night for several days to get all these variations stitched.
And Scout watched me stitching for those days.
And once the cover came together, we all knew we had a winner.
And that's the story of how the cover of Stitch Along came to be. :)
Cannot wait to get my hands on this book! And the story of the cover makes me love it already.
Posted by: SoozG | May 06, 2014 at 07:10 PM
I love that story. So neat that you got to do the cover. You guys getting books published...I cant even imagine what that must feel like. You must F L O A T ! Don't come down :) Laura
Posted by: hastypearl | May 07, 2014 at 09:26 AM