I joined a neighborhood bookclub last year, and while working on holiday projects, decided it might be fun to make some simple fabric bookmarks for the group.

If I’m honest, I expected them to be pretty, but I didn’t realize how functional they would be. I love these fabric bookmarks, and since I often have many books going at one time, I am always searching for a book mark. But not any more, I’ve got them stacked all over.

I started Carolyn Friedlander’s Bow pattern nearly a year ago. I started by selecting my fabrics, and tea dying a selection of gray and white fabrics for the background.

Since then I have been working to get the bows basted into place.

For the block backgrounds I had enough low volume blenders, but the common color was a cooler gray, and I wanted something slightly warmer, so I decided to try dying them with tea.