These two sketchbooks were begun 21 November and I finally finished them today, after “life” caused them to be set aside several times. I took some photos as I went along.
I taught myself to sew the book block using a Coptic stitch from a Trumpetvine Travels blog post years ago, but I’m never quite sure about building the cover from scratch. I sort of make it up as I go along. At one point, I used not only the two antique irons for weight, but also a large book weighed down with a bowl of onions and potatoes!
The small book is accordion-folded from 3” scraps of Fabriano Artistico paper from a previous sketchbook made years ago. The covers are plaid scrapbook paper and linen book cloth — I had both in my stash, though there wasn’t any paper for end papers so I just glued the outer book block pages to the inside of the covers.
I used a stretchy ponytail band to hold the accordion book together.
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