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I have long admired Jenny's fabulous creations at love and peas* she is currently
debating whether her beautiful volumes are journals or books....
I love books! The smell, feel, weight, contents, covers, pages...words, spaces, fonts...I could go on for reams!
The other Saturday I spent a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon learning a new skill alongside two interesting and humourous ladies. It was a stab stitch book binding workshop led by Christina at Fibre Flurry. We had expert tuition, Christina was very patient and informative, and gave us lots of tips and hints from her wide artistic experience. We learned about the Japanese art of binding and folding (so the pages are double) alongside placing leaves in folio.
We were able to use materials from Christina's new plain or colourful paper collection and her bulging boxful of preloved paper - quite a distracting challenge to choose from such an amazing array of pages containing words, music, pictures, destinations, diagrams, lines and notes.
We were able to use materials from Christina's new plain or colourful paper collection and her bulging boxful of preloved paper - quite a distracting challenge to choose from such an amazing array of pages containing words, music, pictures, destinations, diagrams, lines and notes.
The tricky task requiring concentration was measuring, puncturing holes, and sewing the binding but we had two stabs (haha) at it and were able to make our mistakes in a friendly atmosphere!
We came away with two books, templates to make more of the same size, and a stacks of ideas.
We came away with two books, templates to make more of the same size, and a stacks of ideas.
The covers have two sides...
the pattern on the outside and inside..
I included lots of different pages...
Since the workshop I have been browsing charity shops for tatty books to chop into and reuse and reinvigorate! Before shopping I thought it would be easy to slice a book that was not mine..however just trying to choose one was really tricky; all the books were pristine, and by making the choice it meant that I had become attached to the book in question.
I know others have worked through these issues - thanks to Kate for voicing it on her blog and to her daughter Kirsty for the initial inspiration for my paper folding forays !
Today I had several brilliant finds though, and feel that I can reuse these volumes of music
...just look at all these notes..and (someones) notes!!
Here's some of the beautiful items I have gathered ...
soon to be bound and given away to be used by new readers writers and drawers!!
