The ALMANA Craft Soul Stitch Notebook is a creative sewing companion by Berlin-based fashion designer and textile artist Alfonso Maria Nava. Part notebook, part practical guide, it combines space for sketches, notes, and measurements with essential insights on fabric, thread, needles, cutting, and the creative process.
Whether you are a maker long immersed in the craft or newly discovering it, this notebook is an invitation to play, observe, fail, restart, and create in your own way.
A practical and highly visual notebook combining essential sewing knowledge with space for sketches, notes, experiments and the messy process of making something your own.
Available now for pre-order with a early bird discount, using code ALMANA15 on check out until release date. Release date: 4th of December 2026 (TBC)
Features:
Creative Sewing Companion: Part notebook, part practical sewing guide, designed to stay beside you while you sketch, experiment, measure, test and make.
Essential Sewing Knowledge: Practical guidance on needles, fabrics and threads, including ALMANA’s “Sewing Triangle” and how the three elements work together.
Tips & Reference Pages: Includes information on fabric behaviour, needle types and sizes, threads, grain direction, cutting, stitches, material testing and common sewing problems.
Space to Experiment: Pages for personal notes, sketches, measurements, ideas and observations, encouraging users to develop their own creative process rather than simply follow instructions.
Designed for Making: A notebook intended to get used, marked, folded, written in and kept close to the sewing machine — a working object rather than a conventional manual.
